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Nearly a year after the public made their voices heard, there is finally movement on a plan to remove chlorine from the water treatment process in Hannibal.

At Tuesday's meeting, the Hannibal Board of Public Works approved using granular activated carbon filtration system.

General manager Bob Stevenson says that will increase the average customer's water bill by about $20.

"The board spent about two months trying to catch up with the experts on what reverse osmosis was all about and ultimately decide we'll just stick with the activated carbon," said Stevenson. "We hired Black & Veach to get busy on the pilot study i think one day after the election last April. We have not wasted any time. It's just taken this long and you can't speed up the pilot testing."

Stevenson said their average customer pays about $40 dollars a month for water but the new system will increase that bill to $60 dollars.

The new plant should be up and running by March 2020. It's expected to cost $25- million.

Below is the contract between HBPW and Black & Veach for the granulated activated carbon filtration system.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/hbpw-chooses-new-bwater-filtrationb-system637609Esra ( water world news )HBPW chooses new <b>water filtration</b> systemHere&#39;s why one broken pipe left so many New Plymouth district people high and mostly dry

Work is underway replacing the section of pipeline damaged by a tree fall.

For decades no one could have noticed the tree that grew beside a bridged section of a New Plymouth water supply pipe. Now it is the only thing people are talking about.

That's because when the tree fell down in stormy weather on Tuesday night it smashed into a water pipe supplying a 4.5 million litre water tank reservoir that in turn supplied parts of New Plymouth and several towns to the north of it.

This was serious, but just how serious didn't become clear until the next day at 11am when the New Plymouth District Council NPDC imposed level four water restrictions and issued a boil water notice to residents in New Plymouth, Bell Block, Waitara, Tikorangi, Onaero and Urenui.

ANDY JACKSON/STUFF

New Plymouth residents have been told to boil water to drink until further notice.

Some were even requested to avoid flushing their toilet or taking a shower. It wasn't long before some residents turned the tap and nothing came out.

The smashed pipe should be fixed by Friday and supply restored to normal soon after. But how and why did the problem become so widespread so quickly?

It's worth bearing in mind that the average household in the New Plymouth uses 600 litres a day. That's a fairly thirsty appetite and means all reservoirs must constantly be topped up. When they aren't they empty out at a surprising speed.

Here's a crash course on understanding New Plymouth District's water supply and how one smashed pipe can be such a big deal.

The supply: New Plymouth's water comes from the Waiwhakaiho River. It is diverted from there, via a tunnel, to Lake Mangamahoe.

The raw water from the lake is piped to the Water Treatment Plant on SH3 just before Egmont Village, where it is treated and turned into clean drinkable water.

The treated water is then piped under gravity to eight massive water tanks situated at various locations around the district, which in turn each supply water to different areas.

The problem: The broken pipe was carrying water from the water treatment plant to one of the tank reservoirs that supplies other reservoirs at Mangorei Rd, Bell Block, Waitara, Tikorangi, Onaero and Urenui.

When the tree fell and smashed the pipe supplying that first reservoir, 4 million litres of water gushed out. This was the reservoir emptying out of the water that would have topped up the other reservoirs as needed.

Without this top-up the water levels and pressure in other connected reservoirs began to drop. And with the pipe to the first reservoir broken, there was no way to resupply them.

The drop in pressure created by this decreasing level of water creates a risk of groundwater getting into the supply and stirs up sediment. This increases the risk of potential contamination and is the reason the boil water notice was issued.

The central city's water supply is distributed via a different pipe so has not been impacted, although central residents are still urged to boil water before drinking.

- Stuff

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/here39s-why-one-broken-pipe-left-so-many-new-plymouth-district-people-high-and-mostly-dry637610Esra ( water world news )https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/j/4/9/0/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1oj1js.png/1519276163816.jpgHere&#39;s why one broken pipe left so many New Plymouth district people high and mostly dry2018 Managing <b>Water Treatment</b> Basics and Beyond | Nalco Water

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/2018-managing-bwater-treatmentb-basics-and-beyond-nalco-water637611Esra ( water world news )2018 Managing <b>Water Treatment</b> Basics and Beyond | Nalco WaterLow PFAS levels found in major Lake Huron drinking <b>water</b> systemAUGRES, MI -- Low levels of toxic flourochemicals have been verified in a seven-county Lake Huron bulk drinking water supply system that serves more than 260,000 people in Midland, Saginaw, Bay City and dozens of other Michigan communities.

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality disclosed the discovery of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances called PFAS or PFCs in the Saginaw-Midland Municipal Water Supply Corporation (SMMWSC) system on Wednesday, Feb. 21.

The municipal utility system draws Lake Huron water through two intakes off Whitestone Point near AuGres, where the contaminants were discovered in finished water last year.

Total PFAS in AuGres water tested at 9.7 parts-per-trillion (ppt), according to a Dec. 13, 2017 letter by DEQ external relations director Sue Leeming. Of that, 4-ppt was combined PFOS and PFOA.

DEQ collected "verification" samples Dec. 7 and Jan. 11 from the utility's water intake line and two major pipelines. Low PFAS levels were found in every sample.

Total PFAS in raw water ranged from 1.3-ppt to 5.3-ppt in the sampling rounds. The highest combined PFOS and PFOA sample was 2.7-ppt.

The concentrations are well below the Environmental Protection Agency health advisory level of 70-ppt for PFOS and PFOA in drinking water, although there's scientific debate about the adequacy of that benchmark for protecting public health.

Exposure to PFAS has been linked in human studies to certain cancers, thyroid disorders, elevated cholesterol and other diseases.

DEQ did not identify a PFAS source, but advised localities to begin evaluating treatment options "due to the uncertainty on the source of this contamination in Lake Huron."

Neither Michael Quinnell, SMMWSC system general manager, nor Kim Mason, Saginaw water director, had seen DEQ verification sampling results when contacted by MLive on Feb. 16. Calls to water system managers in AuGres and Midland were not returned.

Quinnell couldn't say whether there had been any public notification. He downplayed the seriousness by noting lower concentrations than "what we're seeing in other areas of the state."

"Obviously, there's a big concern about Rockford and the air base to the north of here in Oscoda," Quinnell said, referencing the PFAS contamination caused by Wolverine World Wide waste dumping in Kent County and U.S. Air Force groundwater pollution caused by firefighting foam used at the former Wurtsmith Air Force base.

PFAS from Wurtsmith and upstream at Camp Grayling has been draining to the Au Sable River and Lake Huron since the military began using AFFF firefighting foam in the 1970s.

Mason said Saginaw hadn't conducted independent testing of its water system after being notified by Quinnell on Dec. 14.

The news is concerning, she said.

"When we read the reports in other communities, it wasn't something we thought we'd have a problem with," she said. "I can't say it's completely shocking, but it isn't something I thought would be a concern looking at the source of water we're using."

The SMMWSC is a joint venture between Saginaw and Midland established in 1946. The non-profit municipal corporation operates three pumping plants which feed parallel 48- and 72-inch pipelines running south to the Tri-Cities area.

According to the DEQ, more than 50 communities source water from the system, including the Sims-Whitney Utility Authority, Linwood Metro Water District, the Saginaw-Chippewa Indian Tribe, the cities of AuGres, Omer, Standish, and other Tri-Cities area suburbs.

The DEQ's Feb. 21 letter was copied to wholesale water customers, local health departments, Gov. Rick Snyder's office and the EPA.

The DEQ recommended affected water systems monitor for PFAS on a quarterly basis, sample finished water at treatment plant taps, notify the public and "minimize public exposure to the extent reasonably possible" by evaluating adjustments in treatment and conducting cost/benefit studies on the feasibility of installing new technology.

Conventional water treatment technologies do not remove PFAS.

In Kent County, where private and public water supplies have been contaminated by PFAS, Plainfield Township is installing a $400,000 granular activated carbon system on its 40,000-customer system to remove PFOS & PFOA presently detectable at 6.8-ppt.

PFAS was also confirmed in 2016 at similarly low levels in the Huron Shores Regional Water Authority (HSRWA) system in Tawas.

Other Michigan municipal systems with confirmed PFAS detections include Ann Arbor, Grayling and the village of Sparta.

And even water supplying regional treatment plants isn’t necessarily safe, elected officials heard this week.

Jayme Campbell, a special projects supervisor for Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority, was at a Niagara Region health committee meeting Tuesday to discuss the vulnerability of Niagara’s drinking water, as part of a Drinking Water Source Protection Act study contracted by the Ministry of Environment.

The threats and vulnerabilities identified within Campbell’s report are part of an effort to update the Region’s source water protection plan by 2020.

Campbell said even the hundreds of natural gas wells throughout Niagara, many lined with corroded metal or wood casings, can have an impact on groundwater quality.

Although unused wells must now be filled in, “that was not the practice historically,” he said.

It can give well water a “rotten eggs” odour, denoting contamination by hydrogen sulfide — a poisonous and corrosive gas.

“Tackling this will require multiple agencies working together,” he said.

Campbell said Niagara has numerous hydrogeological sensitive areas, with very little sediment to filter contaminants.

“So what happens on the land very quickly gets into the aquifers,” Campbell said.

He said it’s led to elevated risks of E. coli contamination, and while minimum building codes do not sufficiently protect well water from sewage infiltration.

In addition to groundwater, Campbell said Niagara’s municipal water treatment plant intakes could also face threats, such as climate change and lake water contamination.

Campbell, who also shared his report with representatives of Niagara’s public works committee Tuesday morning, said Port Colborne’s water treatment plant “is the most vulnerable,” affected by phosphorus and algae in Lake Erie as well as climate change. But there maybe room for improvement to better protect each of Niagara’s water intakes.

Campbell said an oil pipeline runs from east to west across the region, and crosses the Niagara River close to the water intake for the Niagara Falls treatment plant.

“In theory, if that oil pipeline leaked we’d have two hours before it’d get into Niagara Falls’ intake,” he said. “I’m not saying there are concerns. This is something to consider.”

He said other jurisdictions have water source protection regarding pipelines, and “we’d like to take a look and say do we need to have some as well.”

Campbell said the intake serving Niagara Falls, near the mouth of the Welland River, could also be impacted by the potential changing flow of water in the river.

The Welland River currently flows backwards to dredging that was done for hydro operations, but Ontario Power Generation is planning to shut down the dredged portion of the water way which would allow the Welland River’s natural flow to resume.

“That water quality isn’t so good,” Campbell said, referring to the murky water of the Welland River. “We don’t want that going into Niagara Falls water treatment plant.”

St. Catharines Coun. Brian Heit is concerned about radioactive materials and other extremely hazardous substances being transported through Niagara.

“Within two hours, the water can be contaminated. We have trucks driving the QEW, thousands of them a day that are carrying all kinds of materials. It could be just gas and oil or whatever that could create a problem for us,” he said, adding emergency personnel should be aware of the threats.

“That concerns me. We have to have everyone working as a team and that everyone knows those hot spots,” Heit said.

Campbell said local emergency personnel seem to be focusing more attention on source water protection, recalling several related training exercises.

“This is on the forefront,” he said.

Pelham Mayor Dave Augustyn asked if by identifying vulnerabilities within the system, the initiative also increases the risk of sabotage.

While Campbell said that exceeds his expertise as an engineer, the information is already available.

“If you wanted to find it, you don’t need to look for a sign on the road,” he said, referring to signs posted near source water areas.

“If someone had bad plans of doing things, it’s already out there.”

abenner@postmedia.com

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/protection-needed-for-vulnerable-drinking-bwaterb637614Esra ( water world news )Protection needed for vulnerable drinking <b>water</b>West Basin Municipal <b>Water</b> District hires Irvine <b>water</b> executive as new general managerA water industry veteran from Orange County has been hired as the new general manager of the West Basin Municipal Water District.

Patrick Sheilds, 58, starts Monday as the top administrator at the Carson-based agency, which supplies imported water to 17 mostly South Bay cities from Malibu to the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Patrick Sheilds. Photo courtesy West Basin Municipal Water District.

For the past five years, he has worked as executive director of operations at the Irvine Ranch Water District, which serves nearly half a million people in central Orange County and operates several water recycling and storage facilities.

“The Board selected Mr. Sheilds for his particular expertise in water recycling programs and his previous experience with our agency,” West Basin board President Donald Dear said in a statement. “We expect his leadership will navigate the District toward its goals of water security for the service area and help to overcome water challenges in the region.”

Officials praised Sheilds for his work implementing a clean energy storage initiative using Tesla batteries at 11 of Irvine Ranch’s most energy-intensive facilities.

“West Basin has an internationally acclaimed water recycling program and is a respected voice in the water industry,” Sheilds said in a statement. “I am looking forward to working with the Board of Directors and District staff to provide a reliable supply of water to the West Basin community.”

Three-year contract

Sheilds replaces former General Manager Rich Nagel, who retired last July.

West Basin hired the headhunting firm Roberts Consulting Group for the search and conducted interviews earlier this year. Sheilds was selected on a 3-2 board vote on Jan. 25, with directors Dear and Harold Williams opposed.

But the panel was unanimous last week approving Sheilds’ three-year contract, which includes a $270,000 annual base salary, medical and CalPERS benefits and an $800 monthly auto allowance.

Prior to joining Irvine Ranch, Sheilds served as executive manager of operations for the Inland Empire Utilities Agency for eight years. Before that, he worked in the private sector for United Water Services, now Suez, a contractor that operates West Basin’s Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility in El Segundo.

Sheillds’ time at United Water included several years overseeing operations at the plant, which today produces 40 million gallons of recycled water daily.

In an interview, Sheilds said he is looking forward to returning.

“I am thrilled, I am super excited and I’ve had a lot of communication with staff in the last few weeks,” he said. “I’m looking forward to advancing the projects they are working on. West Basin is a high-profile agency looking at ocean desalination and has a fantastic water recycling program.”

Workplace discrimination lawsuit

In 2015, Sheilds faced a discrimination lawsuit from an employee who said he made her perform menial tasks because of her gender and Asian-American ethnicity, then retaliated against her when she complained.

The employee, Karen Bonecki, dropped the lawsuit after reaching a $57,500 settlement with Irvine Ranch. Neither the district nor Sheilds admitted wrongdoing and Konecki resigned.

Williams said he was aware of the lawsuit when considering hiring Sheilds, but that it was not concerning to him. He said he initially voted against choosing Sheilds because he preferred another candidate, but that he is confident in his ability to lead West Basin.

Director Carol Kwan said she read news articles about the lawsuit, but that Sheilds received strong references, including one from a female executive.

“They all came through with flying colors,” Kwan said.

Sheilds lives in Fullerton with his wife of over 30 years. They have one adult son.

A native of Ireland, Sheilds worked as an English teacher in the south of France before emigrating to the United States in 1981.

He studied computer science at Fullerton College, but did not finish his degree.

Sheilds said he was introduced to the water industry when he was a student working nights at a liquor store.

After he was robbed twice in 10 days, a customer who worked at the Orange County Sanitation District suggested Sheilds apply for a job there.

Sheilds was hired and left school to begin his water career. He went on to work for the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation before joining United Water, where he was vice president and division manager of operations.

Suez’s $15.7 million annual contract with West Basin is up for a five-year renewal this year.

Sheilds’ hiring comes as the district prepares to release a draft environmental impact report for a $380 million ocean water desalination plant proposed for El Segundo, which could produce 20 million gallons of drinkable water a day. The project has faced opposition from environmentalists in the South Bay beach cities.

West Basin has poured tens of millions of dollars into researching the project, but the board of directors has not voted on it yet.

Desalination is one avenue the district is exploring to make the region less reliant on imported water.

Last week, West Basin signed an agreement with the city of Los Angeles to nearly double the recycling capacity at the Hyperion Water Treatment Facility in El Segundo from about 40 million to 70 million gallons of water a day.

ONTARIO — Ontario officials are planning to increase residents' sewer rates by 20 percent and water rates by 3 percent this year because of increased rates in an Ontario contract with Mansfield for wastewater treatment.

Service-safety director Jeff Wilson said Ontario and Mansfield entered into a renewed 30-year contract in 2014 for Mansfield to handle all of Ontario's wastewater, as Ontario has no wastewater treatment plant to handle it.

The previous contract for wastewater treatment between the two cities was initially agreed to in the mid-1970s, Wilson said.

Rate increases were written into the terms of the renewed contract, with a 40 percent sewer rate increase in 2017, split up into 10 percent increases each quarter; an 18 percent increase in 2018; a 10 percent increase in 2019; and 3 percent increases in each remaining year of the contract.

Because Ontario's rates with Mansfield are increasing, that means Ontario has to pass along the increases to its residents, Wilson said.

"When Mansfield passes along those increases, we have to pass them along, too," he said. "We're basically a customer of Mansfield, just as all of their residents are, and our contract defines the agreement as far as what we agreed to pay."

"That replaces some of what we've lost over the last couple of years by just making the pass-throughs transparent," Wilson said of the administrative fee.

In the current contract, Ontario has the option to opt out after five years, with an additional one-year notice period required before opting out.

"With knowing these increases were coming and not really being able to project them out to what that would do to our rates, we pushed to have that five-year opt-out clause," Wilson said. "We had that put in because we anticipated maybe having to pursue our own wastewater treatment plant."

Wilson said the city is considering creating its own wastewater treatment plant to help lower the high sewer rate currently passed on from Mansfield. The process is currently in the cost analysis stage as the city works with the Environmental Protection Agency to determine the feasibility of the project.

"It wasn't feasible in 2014 when we entered into this contract to build our own wastewater treatment plant. It was still affordable to send it to Mansfield," Wilson said. "But because of these significant increases over the last four years, it's becoming more and more feasible to look into building our own plant."

Wilson said the 3 percent water increase will cover administrative costs, chemical costs and costs of running the water treatment plant.

Weidemyre recommended only increasing the water rate by 3 percent because of the significant sewer rate increase.

Wilson said the current water rate is just over 30 cents for 100 gallons.

Ontario City Council's utilities committee approved creating legislation on the rate increases Wednesday night. The legislation will then be presented to council members for a vote.

Ontario Mayor Randy Hutchinson said the 18 percent increase from Mansfield is already in effect for the city but will not apply to residents until later this year.

The sewer rate increase will be broken down into a 10 percent increase that starts April 1 and a 10 percent increase that starts Oct. 1 "so it's less of an impact," Hutchinson said.

"We didn't do it because we wanted to," said fourth-ward councilman Dan Zeiter. "We did it because we were forced to."

"It's not something we're trying to make money off of...This isn't a situation where Ontario is pocketing and getting fat off the deal," councilman-at-large Larry Arnold added.

The 3 percent water rate increase will go into effect April 1, the same day the city also switches over from quarterly water and sewer bills to monthly.

Wilson said the average quarterly bill is between $230 and $275. Monthly bills should now be around $80 to $90, which should make it easier on families' budgets, Wilson said.

"We've tried to do our part to make people migrate into this comfortably, but let's face it: our (sewer) rates are four times what they were three years ago," Wilson said. "So it's to the point where now this is by and large this is why we're switching to monthly billing."

Wilson previously said the city will bill the January-February-March bill as quarterly, with the last quarterly bill received in April.

Residents will receive the bill for charges from April in May and will then receive a water bill each month in the future.

Hutchinson previously said residents have requested the change to prevent sticker shock four times a year from high water bills reflecting three months of water usage.

The city is outsourcing the billing work to a New Washington-based company, The Herald, to save costs.

According to city records, the current cost per billing cycle for the city is $2,800, with invoices for each of the city's 2,800 residents costing a little less than $1 apiece.

According to records from earlier this month, the Herald's bid came in at $1,905.80 per month, with the cost per invoice for Ontario's 2,800 customers at 68 cents per customer per month, or $8.16 per customer per year.

A laboratory analysis has confirmed that Horowhenua's drinking water is safe.

Horowhenua District Council commissioned the analysis following concerns raised last year.

The analysis, conducted independently by the IANZ-accredited Environmental Laboratory Services, checked drinking water supplied to Levin, Foxton, Foxton Beach, Shannon and Tokomaru for the presence of heavy metals, such as arsenic, chromium and lead.

"As part of our proactive approach to our responsibility for public health, we decided to conduct a comprehensive analysis of all our town water supplies," said Paul Gaydon, water and waste services manager for Horowhenua District Council.

"The results of the analysis showed that the town water supplied to our communities contains safe levels of heavy metals.

"Not one of the results exceeded the maximum safe level of trace heavy metals allowed by the Drinking Water Standards for New Zealand," he said.

Samples of water were taken from the water reticulation network, the water the community drinks, not untreated water. This ensured that any possible effects of chemicals used during water treatment or the water reticulation network were accounted for, he said.

"It gives me great pleasure to state with confidence that our water will have absolutely no adverse effect on our community's health."

Mr Gaydon plans independent testing every five years as a precaution, surpassing New Zealand Drinking Water Standards.

Ability to perform duties for extended periods of time in extreme weather

Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing

Ability to maintain a physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities which may include walking, standing, bending or sitting for extended periods of time

Ability to maintain effective audio visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others and operating assigned equipment and vehicles

Ability to lift, carry, push, or pull moderately heavy objects and materials up to 100 pounds

Requirements

Required Education, Degrees, Certificates, and/or Licenses:

High school diploma or GED

Possess a minimum of Class C Wastewater License

Possess a minimum of Class C Groundwater License

Class II Wastewater Treatment Operator

The ability to obtain both of the above licenses within the time frame allotted per state regulations

Minimum four years experience in water or wastewater utilities including duties involving the skilled operation of moderate to light construction and maintenance

Valid Texas Driver’s License

Acceptable Experience and Training:

A combination of education and experience that indicates a level of skill and knowledge necessary to fulfill the duties of this position may be considered in lieu of the education and experience requirements listed above.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/process-equipment637622Esra ( water world news )Process EquipmentWrite-in primary causes headache for candidates in <b>water treatment</b> raceA write-in only primary has created an uphill battle for candidates running to replace a late commissioner on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.

The sudden death of District Commissioner Timothy Bradford in December means voters will see a blank line marked “Bradford Vacancy” when casting their votes for the March primary.

The Cook County Clerk’s Office asked the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office for a recommendation on how to proceed with the election process in December. Their recommendation came back on Jan. 11, a week before the Jan. 18 deadline for candidates to file their declaration of intent.

Geoffrey Cubbage, the Green Party’s candidate and secretary for the Illinois party, says the process was “rushed” and the clerk’s office is filling the position in the “hardest possible way.”

“The clerk did all the things they were legally required to do, but the goal here isn’t to educate Cook County residents,” Cubbage said. “It’s been an all Democrat board for 20 years, and the Green Party feels like the plan is to keep it that way.”

Cubbage also says there was no public announcement of candidates for the wastewater treatment district. There are five spots open on the nine-member board.

Nick Shields, director of communications for the clerk’s office, said the office promotes voting in general, but “no promotion of one race over another.”

To advance to the November ballot, Cubbage, the only Green Party candidate, would have to receive 1,720 write-in votes. Democratic Party candidates would have to receive 8,075 votes — those numbers reflect the signatures the candidates would have needed to get their names on the ballot. There are no Republican candidates in the race.

According to the clerk’s website, Cubbage’s Democratic challengers are Frank Avila, the son of the district’s current chairman of finance; Karen Bond, Joe Cook, M. Cameron “Cam” Davis, Simon Gordon and Sharon Waller.

Jim Allen, the communications director for the Chicago Board of Elections, said that being a write-in candidate presents its own challenges, but for the water reclamation races there are additional challenges.

“If your name gets printed on the ballot, people have an obvious opportunity to vote for you,” Allen said. “Write-in candidates have to educate voters. You have to find people and convince them to write your name and ‘x’ the spot next to it.”

Cubbage said that he’s done phone-banking and has gone door to door to educate people on the write-in vote.

“The water district is one of the most important elections in the county because everyone who owns a home in Cook is affected,” Cubbage said. “It’s unacceptable that the one-party rule has allowed for such stagnation.”

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/nga-304637623Esra ( water world news )Nga 304Op-Ed: The value of urine in a <b>water</b>-sensitive futureBy now, most Capetonians will know what stored urine smells like – a strong ammonia smell which we try to eliminate using detergents or even precious water. But how does this smell develop? Urine is approximately 95% water and the other 5% has many components, the most abundant being urea. Urea degrades when bacteria are present and this reaction forms ammonia gas. Fortunately, we can prevent this reaction from occurring by adding vinegar or bleach.

But other than having a bad smell, urine is very valuable because it has high concentrations of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, the three key ingredients needed to make inorganic fertilisers. It also has calcium, magnesium and other minerals necessary for plant growth. Shockingly, the urine that we flush away in a toilet only makes up about 1% of the sewage from our homes, yet it contains over 80% of the nitrogen, 56% of the phosphorus and 63% of the potassium in sewage. We literally pee away these valuable nutrients and spend vast amounts of money and energy trying to remove them (not recover them) in sewage plants. If left untreated, these nutrients can enter the environment resulting in algae blooms in natural water bodies. This has already happened at the Hartbeespoort dam in the North West Province and the Wildevoelvlei in Cape Town.

What should be happening is that the urine should be recovered and used to make fertiliser. This approach would also offset the need to pursue the costly and energy intensive effort of mining for limited phosphates and producing synthetic fertilisers. Recovering fertiliser from urine closes the nutrient cycle and has the potential to create a more sustainable future.

In addition, we use drinking water to flush our toilets and urinals. Just flushing our urine away can use as much as 25% of our daily water consumption, depending on how strict you are with your water saving activities. Last year, a final year Civil Engineering student, Tinashe Chipako, calculated that the University of Cape Town (UCT) uses about eight Olympic size swimming pools just to flush its urinals each year. UCT has since implemented water saving initiatives by reducing the number of urinal flushes and putting signage encouraging users to limit the number of flushes. This shows the huge potential for reducing our water consumption by implementing “simple” initiatives. I was encouraged to see similar signage at malls and shopping centres in Cape Town. Coastal cities could even consider sea water flushing for their urinals and toilets, but this requires significant investment to install dual reticulation systems, replace existing pipes and retrofitting waste water treatment plants. Encouragingly, Hong Kong has been using sea water for toilet flushing since the 1950s.

First, we need to collect the urine. This collection could happen at a household level using containers or new office blocks could install no-mix toilets and urine collection systems. The urine can then be treated in three potential ways: (i) we can add calcium hydroxide, which would produce calcium phosphate and prevent ammonia from forming, (ii) we can add a magnesium compound to produce magnesium ammonium phosphate (otherwise known as struvite) or (iii) we can dilute the urine and use it as is.

The addition of calcium hydroxide (lime) or magnesium sulphate (Epsom salt) to your urine produces a solid which is the fertiliser. You would need to filter the solid from the liquid component, which can be done using a simple cloth or bag filter. It might be a good education exercise for your children, showing them that our “waste” can produce valuable fertiliser.

The fertilisers would be produced locally, by entrepreneurs and private companies, thus reduding our need to import fertilisers or mine for natural phosphate rock. For example, UCT currently purchases about four tons of fertiliser a year for its sports field yet it has the potential to produce seven tons of fertiliser from urinals alone. It is clear that systems need a drastic rethink.

You could also pee directly into the garden but don't pee in the same place as salts will eventually build up.

If you live in an apartment block, you can add vinegar to your toilet to prevent any bad smells while it mellows and flush periodically with shower water.

Be open to nutrient recycling initiatives. For example, imagine if we had a company that collected filled urine containers from your home on a weekly basis at a minimal cost or at no cost (the company would make money from the sale of the fertiliser produced). This urine could then be transported to a Resource Recovery Plant where different fertilisers and resources could be manufactured. Or imagine that you transported filled urine-fertiliser containers to recycling depots, much like you would for glass recycling. These household systems would require no water and any bad smell would be prevented by prior calcium hydroxide addition.

Initiatives like this will probably be more widely accepted now (at least in Cape Town) as a result of this drought and that is our blessing in disguise. There are clearly many entrepreneurship opportunities in this space.

Moving to a more sustainable and circular economy, recycling initiatives such as recovering value from urine and faeces becomes pertinent. In addition, rethinking conventional sanitation systems, questioning how they work and how they can be improved is extremely important because not only can we save water but we can also recover resources in a more efficient manner. Be open to change and embrace it because our very future might depend on it. DM

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Dr Dyllon Randall is a senior lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town

Photo: Residents of Cape Town collect drinking water in the early morning from a mountain spring collection point in Cape Town, South Africa, 31 January 2018. EPA-EFE/NIC BOTHMA

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/op-ed-the-value-of-urine-in-a-bwaterb-sensitive-future637319Esra ( water world news )Op-Ed: The value of urine in a <b>water</b>-sensitive futureBonds for utility improvements clear council

La PORTE — City Council suspended its rules and adopted in one reading a pair of ordinances authorizing the sale of revenue bonds to help pay for waterworks and sewage treatment improvements.

“It’s necessary if you want the city to grow and improve,” council member Miles Fettinger said.

Revenue bonds not to exceed $18 million will be issued for a long list of sewage treatment projects — starting as early as March with construction of a solar panel field to power the treatment plant on Boyd Boulevard.

Another series of bonds not to exceed $6 million will be earmarked for waterworks projects, including water treatment and distribution system improvements.

In a related move, the Board of Public Works and Safety on Wednesday signed a contract with O.W. Krohn & Associates in Westfield to begin assessing the city’s utility rate structure.

Despite incremental increases in rates over the years, La Porte’s municipal utilities remain among the least expensive in the state, according Water Department superintendent Todd Taylor.

“It’s time for us to do a more in-depth analysis of our rate structure and look at how much we charge customers at various levels of service,” Taylor said.

Any change in rates would have to be approved by the council. Taylor said rates are based not just on the city's needs but also the cost to residents.

“You always have to strike a balance between cost of service and affordability,” he said.

Water and Wastewater will split the cost of a $6.5 million effort beginning later this year to replace or upgrade all 8,400 water meters on homes and businesses across the city.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure equipment will use radio signals to transmit data daily on the amount of water being used by a customer rather than relying on manual readings collected monthly.

Both the meter-replacement project and the solar-panel project are part of a guaranteed energy savings program, backed by the city’s contract with Schneider Electric, ensuring residents get a return on their investment over time.

Other projects are not expected to pay for themselves but are necessary nonetheless, officials said.

“The fact is, we have a lot of old pipes that need to be replaced,” Taylor said.

City Council member Roger Galloway said the cost of making necessary improvements would likely exceed the revenue produced by the bonds.

"Rates will have to go up," he said. "We just don't know how much. That's what this study will tell us."

The two ordinances also included provisions for bond anticipation notes — short-term interest-bearing securities issued in advance of larger bond issues.

City Attorney Nick Otis said financial advisers urged passage of the ordinances as soon as possible to ensure time to achieve the most favorable interest rates on the bonds.

Other sewage projects authorized in the measure Tuesday included a third phase of sewer separation in the Monroe Manor neighborhood, upgrading screens and grit-removal systems at the treatment plant and repairing concrete walls in the biotower trickling filter.

Also listed on the sewage treatment side: installation of facilities to remove phosphorus in compliance with state requirements, making stormwater and sewer separation improvements along Craven Drive and adjoining areas, and extending sanitary sewer and storm sewer lines in the 3500 block of Monroe Street and surrounding areas.

Other projects on the waterworks side included development of new water supply wells, the identification and replacement of cast-iron mains, and the gradual replacement of aging valves, hydrants and other equipment.

City Council member Tim Stabosz, responding to comments from one resident who spoke in favor of drainage improvements in her neighborhood, said the city could talk about forming special districts to assess additional fees in some areas if necessary.

“Improvements can be accelerated,” he said. “The question is whether you’re wiling to pay a little extra each month on your utility bill.”

In other action Tuesday, council members:

• Approved on final reading an ordinance to change council meeting times to 6 p.m. The council previously approved the change by motion only before realizing the move required an amendment to municipal code.

City Council member Stabosz introduced the amendment to ensure the change was done according to law, but he was the only council member to vote against it, saying he thought the earlier time made it less convenient for constituents to attend meetings.

• Introduced amendments to an existing ordinance that prohibits smoking in city-owned buildings and vehicles to include terms such as vaping, e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems. A second reading of the measure is required.

The works board on Wednesday tabled a similar change to the employee policy handbook until details about penalties could be reviewed by the city attorney.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/effluent-bwater-treatmentb-plant637321Esra ( water world news )https://bizimages.withfloats.com/tile/5a8da2759a3a260ac4aedfc8.jpgEffluent <b>Water Treatment</b> PlantIndia&#39;s <b>water</b> crisis opens channel to collaboration with Canadian techStewart Beck is president and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Canadian career diplomat who served abroad in India, China, Taiwan and the United States.Rajiv Lall is founder managing director and CEO, IDFC Bank, and chairman of the Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council.

Canada is fortunate that food security is not a political concern, nor is weather an annual factor in determining our GDP. Food security, on the other hand, is critical for many countries in Asia, with India perhaps being the most affected.

We imagine that India's food security is a priority topic during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's five-city tour of the country this week. India is facing a perfect storm in water management, with serious agricultural effects. A rapidly increasing population is placing an untenable load on limited water-related infrastructure and on the diminishing groundwater tapped for India's massive agricultural needs. Add to this mix the complex implications of climate change – including changes to rainfall patterns, floods, droughts and saltwater intrusion – and the situation is dire. More than 70 per cent of India's surface and groundwater is now contaminated, reports India's own Energy and Resources Institute.

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While Canada has been negotiating a free-trade pact with India since 2010, and a foreign investment protection agreement since 2004, both deals will take a back seat this week as the Trudeau government focuses on more immediate issues affecting trade and investment with Asia's new economic juggernaut. In particular, there will be an effort to persuade the Indian government to overturn its decision to impose up to a 50-per-cent duty on certain pulses imported from Canada.

The duty reflects a good monsoon season last year, which increased crop yields, and the desire of the Indian government to develop its own self-sufficiency in this agricultural sector. In reality, with an expanding economy and more than 800 million people relying on pulses for their protein, Canada will always play a role in India's protein security and its food security in general.

Canada, with its related expertise, research and technologies, is also well positioned to capitalize on the opportunity to help India respond to its daunting water and agriculture challenges. Innovative technological solutions and new financing mechanisms will be key to collaboration in this sector and to broader engagement with India.

Canada's advantages in the water value chain are twofold. First, we are a global leader in specialized areas such as membrane technology, water purification, and waste-water recapture and treatment. Second, Canada has substantial expertise in water services including consulting, engineering, data analysis and construction.

In fact, according to Canada's Blue Economy Initiative, which seeks to make the country a global leader in water sustainability, approximately 500 of the 600 Canadian companies active in this space specialize in water-related services.

Transforming these made-in-Canada technologies and services into actual, scalable solutions for India calls for innovative approaches to the opportunity.

One of the challenges facing Canadian water businesses is their size and scale. To be successful in an emerging market such as India's requires deep pockets and financial instruments that will allow Canadian firms to demonstrate the viability of their technologies. These currently do not exist.

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Although Export Development Canada has excellent tools to deploy to assist Canadian exporters, it is essentially an asset base lender. It does not, at this time, have the ability to support the necessary demonstration projects required to satisfy a potential client that the technology will, in fact, provide the needed solution.

Addressing this funding lacuna for Canadian water technology companies and matching it with the research and technology outputs from the government's recent announcement of supercluster funding for Protein Industries Canada can be and should be a key factor in our strategic relationship with India. In the short term, we are a commodity exporter of an essential protein element in the Indian diet – but we need and should be a strategic partner in ensuring India's long-term food and water security.

One hope for Mr. Trudeau's visit to India is for the two leaders to not only address the bilateral irritant of an increased tariff, but to look beyond to creative ways to connect and innovate around the critical water challenges facing India.

On March 2 in Toronto, the meeting of the Asian Business Leaders Advisory Council with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada will be addressing these strategic aspects of Canada's relations with Asia. We expect insights from the Prime Minister's mission to India will feature prominently in the discourse. Its challenges are our shared opportunities.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/india39s-bwaterb-crisis-opens-channel-to-collaboration-with-canadian-tech637322Esra ( water world news )India&#39;s <b>water</b> crisis opens channel to collaboration with Canadian techSouth Bend wastewater plant floods, could be shut down

SOUTH BEND — Sections of the city's wastewater treatment plant have been shut down because of flooding, dropping treatment capacity to about a quarter of its maximum, forcing raw sewage to flow into the river.

During a press conference this afternoon, South Bend Public Works Director Eric Horvath said the city's plant is down to a treatment capacity of 20 million gallons a day, well below its 77 million gallon-a-day capacity.

"With the water coming up, we simply just had to shut down a number of our facilities so we can keep the plant open at a later date," Horvath said. "If it gets much higher we'll have to completely shut down the plant."

Horvath said that around noon the plant began shutting down sections that were threatened by flood waters backing up through the city's sewage system.

"What we don't want to happen is have a washout where we can't recover the plant," Horvath said.

A total flood of the plant while still online would wash away the biological micro-organisms that do the primary work of treating wastewater. Right now, the plant's chlorination facility is already shut down.

On Tuesday, the plant was operating at a historically high treatment rate according to utilities director Al Greek.

Now, with limited treatment capacity, much of the city's sewage and wastewater will flow directly into the St. Joseph River without any treatment. If the plant shuts down, all of the city's raw sewage will be dumped straight into the river.

"There's a lot of sewage going into the river right now," Horvath said. "There's a lot of river water coming into the sewer."

Horvath said that the issues at the wastewater plant have no impact on the city's drinking water, and that public works is monitoring the water treatment facilities.

New technical information shows a consolidation effort would cost $6 million more than if Libertyville upgraded its own plant and remained separate, Director of Public Works Paul Kendzior said during a Feb. 13 Water and Sewer Committee meeting.

Libertyville’s operating permit through the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is set to expire on April 1, 2019, according to Kendzior. He said it would be challenging to complete construction and testing of the new equipment by that time.

However, an extension through April 1, 2020 was requested due to the consolidation study. Kendzior said the Illinois EPA is in the process of a public posting to collect feedback.

“I expect to see that any time now. I was told sometime in February,” Kendzior said. “Our expectation is they’ll give us that extra year. They never give definite answers, but they seemed to agree with our idea.”

Libertyville would then bid the upgrade project, which involves constructing a new small building, sometime this spring, Kendzior said.

The two treatment plants are both located along Milwaukee Avenue and release treated water into the Des Plaines River. The plants collect and treat commercial and household waste. Officials from both villages said the plants’ coincidentally close proximity had them thinking about consolidation for a while.

In the middle of last year, both villages agreed to split the cost of a $67,000 consolidation study with the hope of finding ways to reduce future spending. The decision came amid a rush to meet new phosphorus removal guidelines.

Results of that study showed consolidation is possible, but Kendzior said Libertyville still wasn’t sure which upgrade its plant could handle and budgeted a more expensive option. New information indicates Libertyville can make the needed upgrades for $2 million.

Village Trustee Rich Moras, who is on the Water and Sewer Committee, said compatibility has its difficulties.

“With projects like this, the timing…has a big influence on how that equation works out,” Moras said. “Clearly at this point in the capital cycle, it doesn’t make sense, from what you just said, assuming everything double checks.”

Kendzior said he’s heard about proposals for limiting nitrogen in water, but he said there’s nothing imminent and speculated it could be up to 15 years before anything specific is put into legislation.

“The future of this goes to one logical conclusion and it’s just a question of how much time,” Moras said. “All municipal wastewater treatment plants at some point will be required to have a full-circle (standard to guarantee) what leaves is affluent drinking water. We’re kidding ourselves if we don’t believe that’s the end game of all of this.”

Kendzior said legislators will one day need to consider new or improved regulations on the products being sold to consumers in order to protect waterways because the cost and space needed for upgrading treatment plants will be too great.

Entrepreneurial skills lend themselves to all kinds of ventures in life, not just to making money.

They certainly lent themselves to Bart Smelley – you may recognize the name: Bart’s son Brad played tight end for the University of Alabama and his other son Chris was a quarterback at the University of South Carolina and played baseball at Alabama – who founded the Tuscaloosa-based Christian ministry organization Filter of Hope that creates household water filters for families living in poverty.

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Before he started Filter of Hope, Smelley was a successful businessman who got involved with a ministry that did a lot of aid work with the people of the Dominican Republic. Commonly voiced among their needs for education and jobs was a desperate need for clean water.

“Bart is kind of a long-time entrepreneur, before he got into ministry. He just kind of got stuck on the clean water thing,” Davis Looney, director of campus partnerships for Filter of Hope, told Yellowhammer News.

Smelley’s clean water efforts originally began with facilitating installation of biosand filters, which simply mimic natural filtration processes, but those filters require significant attention and care.

Looking for something more utilitarian, he began using a method which takes a porous ceramic pot-like container, infuses it with various filtration mechanisms and allows the filtered water to seep through the pores.

“Again, it cleaned water really well, but they were ceramic. You take it up a mountain in the back of a truck with bad roads and the thing is going to be broken by the time you get up there and put it in a house with eight people,” Looney said.

Smelley finally came across the technology of hollow fiber membranes, primarily used for mass scale waste water treatment. Working with engineers, Smelley developed a filter particularly for filtering drinking water and obtained a patent for it.

All of this happened while Smelley was at his previous ministry, and when people began continuously approaching him about buying his filters to use in their ministries around the world, he decided to start his own.

“He saw that the filter itself had potential to do a lot more than what he was doing with it,” Looney said.

And so about four years ago, Smelley started Filter of Hope aiming to sell filters to any and everyone who seeks to do water-related initiatives around the world and to use those revenues to help fund Filter of Hope’s ministry efforts.

Over the years, churches, humanitarian organizations, and disaster relief groups have taken the filters to 56 countries around the world. A couple of hundred were sent to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico within the last year.

As for their own on-the-ground ministry efforts, Filter of Hope works in Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

Looney was brought on to establish a college-aged presence in the organization and to facilitate ministry trips. In 2016, 220 college students traveled to three different countries to deliver filters. Last year, Filter of Hope took about 530 students to do the same and this year, it’ll be about 850.

“In this next month, we’ll take students from Oregon State University all the way to South Florida,” Looney said.

“We want them to have an experience that’s beneficial to the people and country where they’re providing people with clean water, they’re sharing their faith, they’re equipping the local church to better serve their areas.”

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/outeniqua-waste-bwater-treatmentb-works637326Esra ( water world news )https://cms.groupeditors.com/img/george_herald.jpg?w=785&amp;quality=97outeniqua waste <b>water treatment</b> works<b>Water filters</b> to fishing piers: How the 3M settlement can be spent

While the settlement calls for the money to first go toward addressing contamination from perfluorochemicals, or PFCs, in the eastern Twin Cities suburbs, secondary uses for the money range from addressing the depletion of groundwater aquifers to building fishing piers to allow Washington County residents to fish on lakes not contaminated with PFCs.

Landwehr said those anglers are limited to catch and release in some areas because of the contamination. He said $20 million of the settlement will be set aside for immediate projects to address PFC contamination affecting fish and wildlife, and additional funds could be available for things like fishing piers on lakes not affected by PFC fish consumption warnings.

When PFCs get into surface waters, like the Mississippi River, they settle and accumulate in the bodies of tiny bugs who live there, Landwehr said. Those bugs are at the bottom of the food chain, so as fish eat the bugs and birds eat the fish, local wildlife is raising the concentration of PFCs in their own bodies, he said.

State officials will put together a work group this spring that includes various stakeholders, such as the suburban cities whose water supplies are contaminated. Swanson said leaders of the DNR and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will act as trustees for the settlement and will consider public input before deciding how the money will best be spent.

The area in which PFCs are found in groundwater now covers 100 square miles, and contaminated water continues to move, said John Linc Stine, Commissioner Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. He said state officials will look to use the money on longer-term solutions to supply safe drinking water to the people who live in the area.

"The plume keeps moving, and what we understand about these chemicals and the risk to the human body and the environment is also changing," Stine said.

About 650 private wells are pulling water contaminated by PFCs. That problem can be addressed through home filtration systems, drilling deeper wells or by connecting the home to a municipal water supply. For cities, treating drinking water contaminated with PFCs requires advanced filtration that's more expensive than what's usually required.

For example, the city of Cottage Grove recently installed two temporary treatment facilities to ensure its drinking water meets the latest health guidelines for PFCs.

"We need a long-term solution," said Cottage Grove Mayor Myron Bailey, adding that a new treatment plant to address all the city's supply would cost about $50 million.

While treating current water supplies will be the priority, state officials said there's also room in the settlement agreement to address issues of water quantity. The Metropolitan Council has warned that it isn't sustainable for the eastern Twin Cities suburbs to continue to rely on groundwater, especially as the region grows.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/bwater-filtersb-to-fishing-piers-how-the-3m-settlement-can-be-spent637046Esra ( water world news )<b>Water filters</b> to fishing piers: How the 3M settlement can be spentCosts of growth: Spring Hill will study how to expand sewer and <b>water treatment</b> plants

The growing population in Spring Hill has strained the sewer and water treatment plants, and now the city has asked for a study looking into how to expand those services.

The Board of Mayor and Alderman approved funding for two studies at its board meeting last night.

The studies will result in plans to expand the facilities, which are required to receive low interest rate loans for those projects from the Environmental Protection Agency and state government. The study for the wastewater plant will also include a water quality study needed to get a permit to discharge more wastewater into a local creek.

Spring Hill’s wastewater treatment plant currently processes about 3.7 million gallons of wastewater per day with some spikes. It can consistently handle up to 5 million gallons a day with occasional spikes up to 14 million gallons a day. The treatment plant is equipped to handle sewage on an average day, but days with lots of sewage occasionally exceed the plant’s maximum capacity. The city predicts that it will outgrow the plant by 2024.

However, the Spring Hill can’t expand the sewage treatment plant right away. The plant dumps treated water into Rutherford Creek, and the Tennessee Department of the Environment and Conservation won’t allow the city to discharge more than the current plant’s capacity. That permit expires in October, so the city is hoping to get permission to put more water into the creek.

Infrastructure Director Phillip Stuckert said putting more treated wastewater into Rutherford Creek will add more nutrients like ammonia, nitrogen and phosphorous to the water. The creek was only recently removed from a list of threatened and impaired waters, so he isn’t sure that the state will allow Spring Hill to do that.

“They don’t want it to degrade … and neither do we. We’re stewards of the community,” he said. “So we have to do a water quality study on Rutherford Creek … What threshold can we discharge?”

If the city doesn’t get permission to put more nutrients into the creek it will have to remove more nutrients before discharging the treated water. But removing the nutrients creates another problem: solid waste. Removing extra nutrients creates solid waste that the city has to dispose of.

Stuckert said one option would be incinerating the waste at a facility in Lebanon, but that tends to be expensive. Other options include spraying the waste onto empty fields or dripping it into the ground.

Spring Hill’s water treatment plant is in a similar situation. The city has a permit to draw up to 6 million gallons of water every day from the Duck River, and the water treatment plant can produce 4 million gallons of drinking water a day. Stuckert said right now, the plant only needs to process about 2.5 million gallons on an average day.

By 2037, Spring Hill’s water treatment plant will need to have the ability to produce 10 million gallons a day when there is especially high demand for water. That’s much higher than the current plant can produce, and even more than the city is allowed to take out of the river.

Spring Hill had already anticipated the need for more water. It has a contract with Columbia Power & Water Systems to provide extra an extra 2.9 million gallons of water per day if needed. Right now the city doesn’t use much of that water. Stuckert called the contract a backup plan that gives the city more time to figure out how to expand its own water treatment plant.

But late last year the Columbia water provider announced that its water treatment plant wasn’t able to produce as much water as it previously thought. As a result, it probably won’t be a able to provide extra water if Spring Hill needs it in the future. That contract expires in spring 2019, and it’s not clear whether Spring Hill will be able to get water from Columbia after that. Without a back up plan, the city now needs to move quickly to make sure it can provide enough drinking water in the long run.

The state has only given Spring Hill permission to use 6 million gallons of water per day from the Duck River. The plan is to first build a plant that can produce that much water. In a memo for board members, Stuckert wrote that the upgraded plant could be online by 2021, which would solve the short term problem.

To solve the long-term problem, the city hopes to get permission from the state to draw 10 million gallons of water per day from the Duck River. Stuckert didn’t recommend planning for a plant that could process 10 million gallons a day because there’s a chance the state wouldn’t give the city permission to use that much water.

Columbia Power & Water Systems also expects to increase its treatment capacity during the next decade and could potentially sell Spring Hill water in the future. The city hasn’t determined if it makes more sense to build its own water treatment plant, or buy water from Columbia Power & Water Systems.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/costs-of-growth-spring-hill-will-study-how-to-expand-sewer-and-bwater-treatmentb-plants637047Esra ( water world news )Costs of growth: Spring Hill will study how to expand sewer and <b>water treatment</b> plantsSpotsylvania&#39;s debate over fluoridated <b>water</b> may not be dead after all

At least one Spotsylvania County leader wants to keep the debate over fluoridated water alive, even though the Board of Supervisors voted to continue the long-standing practice earlier this month.

In a recent email to county officials, Board of Supervisors Chairman Greg Benton said he’s still interested in surveying residents about fluoridated water and putting what he described as an “informational statement and/or warning” on water bills.

“I do not believe the vote … precludes either of these for discussion or for being done and I would like to do this in the very near future so we can put this to rest for good,” Benton wrote in an email Feb. 15, two days after the Board of Supervisors voted 4–3 to continue what is known as “community water fluoridation.” In an interview, however, Benton said he was in “no rush to do anything right now.”

The county has added a small amount of fluoride to its public water supply since 1981, a common practice that most dentists consider a safe way to help prevent cavities. A decision to cut off fluoride would also impact the city of Fredericksburg, which gets its water from the Motts Run Water Treatment Plant in Spotsylvania.

Benton—whose home receives well water—said he’s not sure how the survey would be conducted, though he said it could be mailed with water bills and ask residents if they oppose, support or do not care about fluoridated water. A “noticeable majority” of respondents would have to oppose the practice for the county to base its decision on the poll’s findings, he said, adding that supervisors would need to discuss that process.

“We can’t send out 1,500 bills and get 10 back saying they don’t want it and go with that,” Benton said.

Supervisors started debating the topic last year in response to resident Larry Plating’s three-year campaign against fluoridated water, which critics assert causes health problems and amounts to “forced medication.” Health care professionals got wind of the discussion and turned out at a January meeting to urge supervisors to continue the practice.

About 96 percent of Virginians and 74 percent of the U.S. population get their water from public systems that add fluoride.

Still, Supervisors David Ross and Paul Trampe joined Benton in voting against this month’s motion to keep the status quo. And last month, Ross asked county employees to look into putting a notice about fluoride on county water bills.

Deputy County Administrator Ed Petrovitch said at a Feb. 13 meeting that officials had drafted language for water bills that includes the fluoride concentration of 0.7 milligrams per liter and advises residents to consult their doctor if they have questions. Supervisors have not voted on whether to include such a notice on water bills, though county officials said the cost of doing so would be negligible.

Nationally, some localities have let voters decide whether to continue water fluoridation through referendums.

Asked what he thought of a referendum, Benton replied: “I’m open to anything that’s going to be cheap but … effectively done.” He said that the majority of speakers who supported water fluoridation at a county meeting last month do not live in Spotsylvania.

Some of the speakers, including various dentists in the Fredericksburg region, noted that an overwhelming number of scientific studies show no adverse health effects from fluoridated water. Benton was unmoved.

“Everybody talks about all these doggone studies, but you can make a study say what you want it to,” he said in an interview. “I want to hear from our citizens. I don’t care about all these other folks putting in their 2 cents worth and not even being from Spotsylvania County.”

I want to hear from our citizens. I don’t care about all these other folks putting in their 2 cents worth and not even being from Spotsylvania County. —GREG BENTON,SUPERVISOR

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/spotsylvania39s-debate-over-fluoridated-bwaterb-may-not-be-dead-after-all637048Esra ( water world news )Spotsylvania&#39;s debate over fluoridated <b>water</b> may not be dead after allPotable <b>Water</b> for Sistan Village
A water treatment plant has been built in the water-stressed village of Azati in Sarbaz County of Sistan-Baluchestan Province to supply drinking water for villagers with the financial support of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.The humanitarian project was inaugurated on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by officials from IRISL, Parvin Farshchi, deputy for marine environment at the Department of Environment, and Hamideddin Yousefi, governor of Sarbaz County.

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The color scheme for Taylorville’s new water plant was decided, and the new TIF districts are in the final steps of being completed after Tuesday night’s city council meeting.

Taylorville mayor Bruce Barry says the council wants the new water treatment plant to blend into its neighborhood.

One of the two TIF districts is now at a point where a public hearing will be held before the council votes on the completion of the districts. That hearing is anticipated to be scheduled before the second council meeting in March. Barry says the second TIF district is progressing, and the district on the northwest side of the city could be operational by April.

The next city council meeting is scheduled for March 5 at 7 p.m. at the Taylorville Municipal Building.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/bwater-treatmentb-plant-tif-districts-again-main-topics-of-taylorville-city-council-meeting637049Esra ( water world news )<b>Water Treatment</b> Plant, TIF Districts Again Main Topics of Taylorville City Council MeetingWedeco/Ideal HorizonsWedeco began in Herford, Germany in 1976 to produce environmentally friendly water treatment such as UV and Ozone disinfection. They have produced several advanced technologies in UV water treatment as well as advancements in longevity and efficiency in UV lamps.

In 2000, Wedeco merged with an American competitor, Ideal Horizons, which had been in business since 1983. The combined company became known as WEDECO Ideal Horizons, Inc; then changed its name to WEDECO UV Technologies, Inc in 2003. In 2004, the combined company was bought by ITT Industries to become a subsidiary of their Water division. Then in 2011, the ITT Water & Wastewater division was spun out into a separate company called Xylem. Today Wedeco is a subsidiary of Xylem and continues to specialize in UV and Ozone Treatment.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/wedecoideal-horizons637050Esra ( water world news )Wedeco/Ideal HorizonsBucyrus plans to extend <b>water</b> lines outside of city limits

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BUCYRUS - Two resolutions adopted by Bucyrus City Council Tuesday night will allow the city to extend water lines outside of the city limits.

The city is currently looking to extend service to Sulfur Springs. The plan also has future phases of extending service into areas along Stetzer Road, Nevada, Oceola, the area of Ohio 4 South to Mount Zion Road, Ohio 19 South and Holmes Township.

The two resolutions include an authorization to apply to the Ohio EPA for approval for building the waterline infrastructure and a contract with Makeever and Associates INC. to create the plan, construct the water lines and apply for the EPA permit.

The goal is to add around 145 customers from the Sulphur Springs expansion, with projected revenue of $59,000; and eventually add around 1,100 customers outside of the city, with a potential yearly revenue of $700,000.

Home owners in the expansion areas should expect a letter from the City of Bucyrus detailing the tap-in water fees.

A draft of the letter says potential customers have the option of paying a one-time payment of $1,600; a $500 down payment with 12 monthly payments of $100; or a $500 down payment with 24 monthly payments of $60.

Jeff Reser, Bucyrus mayor, said the city is hoping to "reduce the financial burden," of the new water treatment plant that was unveiled last year.

Reser also said in his State of the City that the plan will "allow us to increase our customer base by nearly 20 percent over the next decade ... reducing the burden on our current water users."

"I do have seven or eight neighbors who are interested," said Leslie Johnson, a Crestline Road resident, at council's meeting Tuesday.

The initial cost to the city to run water to Sulphur Springs will be around $800,000. Cost of building the lines is not to exceed $66,000, according to the contract with Makeever.

A date of completion for the first phase of the project has not been set. Potential customers will be given until an undetermined date in March to sign on.

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With capacity to easily expand to 6.3 MGD, the new plant provides a stable and secure source of drinking water for Arkansas City, a community of 12,000 located in south-central Kansas and surrounding customers.

The new $22 million plant was built at a cost of $4 million under the original budget. In addition, advanced technology will enable the plant to achieve annual operations and maintenance cost savings of 20 percent under costs of the existing city water treatment facility that had been in operation since the 1950s.

"Arkansas City now has an outstanding new water treatment facility that will guarantee clean, affordable water for our citizens for decades to come," said Nick Hernandez, city manager of Arkansas City. "We're thrilled that this outstanding project came in well under budget, and will save operations and maintenance costs for years to come."

Burns & McDonnell worked in partnership with the city's Public Works Department to implement a number of technology solutions as part of a wide-ranging cost savings initiative. Among the most significant savings was a reclassification of the Arkansas City water supply, enabling a savings of $1.5 million.

The city currently utilizes 10 wells within the Arkansas River alluvium for its water supply. Studies showed that the continued use of the alluvial well field was the most reliable and cost-effective water source. However, the wells previously had been identified as a well field with "groundwater under the direct influence of surface water." Burns & McDonnell conducted a study that confirmed the wells are not under the direct influence of surface water. This reclassification enabled the city to switch from more expensive microfiltration technology to GreensandPlus filtration and integrate other cost-saving equipment adjustments.

Additional studies verified that the less expensive treatment options were sufficient to remove iron, manganese and other minerals, as well as other constituents such as chlorides, total dissolved solids, hardness and other contaminants. Extensive testing verified that water quality treated at the new facility exceeds standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

In addition, the plant features a new 1.5 million-gallon clearwell and high-service pumping for finished water supply to the distribution system, and a full range of other chemical treatment systems to provide a stable drinking water supply to the customers.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/bwater-treatmentb-jobs-in-east-rand637055Esra ( water world news )<b>Water Treatment</b> jobs in East RandWaste <b>water</b> plant to be upgraded

An aerial photo of the Outeniqua Waste Water Treatment Works near Pacaltsdorp.The final phase of the upgrade is expected to be completed by July 2019.

GEORGE NEWS - George Municipality appointed Royal HaskoningDHV to design and implement the 10-megaliter-per-day biological nutrient removal (BNR) extension of the Outeniqua Waste Water Treatment Works (OWWTW).

The project was subdivided into phases to accommodate budget constraints and since 2014, three phases have been successfully completed and commissioned.

The total project cost for the upgrade or expansion of the Outeniqua WWTW is estimated at R130-million.

At a meeting of the George municipal council on 25 October 2017, the civil engineering services commented that at that time, "the OWWTW has reached its full design capacity and no further development can be accommodated until additional sewer treatment capacity is available. The cost of extending the treatment capacity by an additional 10-million litres per day is in the region of R130-million."

GrantWhen asked recently to elaborate on an October 2017 council agenda item, Chantel Edwards-Klose, George Municipality communications manager said, "In the 2016/2017 financial year, the Department of Human Settlements provided a grant fund of R50-million, which allows for a considerably larger fourth phase. Icon Construction was appointed for the construction of the civil work for the main reactor plant, a secondary sedimentation tank and accompanying infrastructure. It is expected to be completed by July 2019."

FundingThe intention is to upgrade the ageing infrastructure of the existing carousel at the Outeniqua WWTW after the completion of the extension work.

"Funding is in the process of being secured for this project," said Edwards-Klose.

"George Municipality has seven wastewater treatment works (WWTW), of which the Outeniqua WWTW and Gwaiing WWTW are the largest.

"The sewer masterplan for George determined that the Outeniqua WWTW must be extended to accommodate the area's current population growth."

Benefit to UFPAfter the upgrade, the better quality outflow of the Outeniqua WWTW module will contribute to the ultrafiltration plant (UFP) performing more efficiently. George's UF plant in Rosedale was completed at a cost of over R90-million in 2010, to transform waste water from the sewage plant to an acceptable standard before pumping it into the Garden Route Dam for reuse. The outflow of the Outeniqua WWTW is discharged into the Schaapkop River, which flows to the ocean.

QualityThe quality of all final effluent must adhere to specific national standards, and to meet the standards, further treatment at the UFP provides additional water security for George.

After conventional treatment at the WWTW the effluent is treated to a higher standard using ultra filtration (membrane filtration), after which it is pumped to the Garden Route Dam.

Dilution takes place through natural mixing with raw water, while also being exposed to the strong natural disinfection properties of the sun's ultraviolet rays.

The existing raw water pumping system at the dam pumps the blended water to the water treatment works, where it is treated using conventional methods, but with the addition of activated carbon as added security.

All potable water adheres to national standards and standards are monitored continuously by the municipality and the Department of Water and Sanitation in its oversight role.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/waste-bwaterb-plant-to-be-upgraded637056Esra ( water world news )https://cms.groupeditors.com/img/082b3a31-bbb0-4a4b-9448-3b1d146a19e4.jpg?crop=170,0,650,480&amp;w=400&amp;h=400&amp;scale=bothWaste <b>water</b> plant to be upgradedPiles - this is how much <b>water</b> you need to drink everyday to prevent haemorrhoids

Haemorrhoids, or piles, are enlarged blood vessels that are found in or around the rectum and anus, according to the NHS.

Piles symptoms include bleeding after passing a stool, having an itchy anus, or finding lumps hanging down outside of the anus.

You can lower your risk of haemorrhoids by eating more fibre, losing weight, and not delaying going to the toilet if you need to pass a stool.

Drinking at least six glasses of water everyday may also prevent piles.

“The best way to prevent haemorrhoids is to keep your stools soft, so they pass easily,” said the Mayo Clinic.

“Drink six to eight glasses of water and other liquids [not alcohol] each day to help keep stools soft.”

Eating more fruit, vegetables and whole grains could also lower your risk of piles.

Straining, and holding your breath, while trying to pass a stool can lead to haemorrhoids.

It creates greater pressure in the lower rectum’s veins.

You should also go to the toilet as soon as you feel the need to pass a stool.

“If you wait to pass a bowel movement and the urge goes away, your stool could become dry and be harder to pass,” the clinic said.

The exact cause of haemorrhoids isn’t clear, according to the NHS.

But, they’ve linked to increased pressure in blood vessels in and around the anus.

The pressure causes blood vessels to become swollen and inflamed.

About half the people in the UK develop one or more haemorrhoids at some point in their life.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/piles-this-is-how-much-bwaterb-you-need-to-drink-everyday-to-prevent-haemorrhoids637057Esra ( water world news )Piles - this is how much <b>water</b> you need to drink everyday to prevent haemorrhoidsAquasafe <b>water treatment</b>http://waterworldnews.net/aquasafe-bwater-treatmentb637058Esra ( water world news )Aquasafe <b>water treatment</b>Support Technician for <b>Water Treatment</b> Companyhttp://waterworldnews.net/support-technician-for-bwater-treatmentb-company636756Esra ( water world news )Support Technician for <b>Water Treatment</b> CompanyEditorial: Act now to keep drugs out of <b>water</b> supplyAs if state and federal environmental officials don’t have enough to deal with — PFOA contamination, PCBs in the Hudson River, and sewage overflows from overwhelmed municipal systems — now they’re going to have to get out in front of a relatively new threat to the public and wildlife: drugs in the water supply.

A new study released this week by researchers at Columbia University of a 155-mile stretch of the Hudson River from the Albany south to New York Harbor discovered 16 pharmaceutical compounds in the water, largely near the discharge pipes for municipal water treatment systems.

These drugs included antibiotics, acetaminophen, caffeine, the artificial sweetener sucralose, and drugs used to treat conditions such as high blood pressure, epilepsy, high cholesterol and ulcers.

While officials didn’t raise alarms over the levels of the chemicals found in the water, the prevalence of so many highly prescribed items and their potential to harm fish, aquatic organisms and other wildlife should the chemicals accumulate over time should be a red flag that officials need to start finding ways to keep these materials out of the water supply.

While municipal water is treated, common methods for treating water aren’t necessarily designed to remove small amounts of prescription drugs, and many of those compounds are difficult to remove. Chlorine, which is often added to water to treat it, can even make some chemicals more toxic.

An Associated Press investigation conducted in 2008 found that at least 41 million Americans were drinking water containing a vast amount of drugs, including those found in the Columbia study, as well as anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones.

While the levels of chemicals the AP study found didn’t rise to the levels of a medical dose, the study did raise concerns about the long-term effects of these drugs steadily getting into the water supply and affecting vulnerable people over a long period of time.

Researchers haven’t pinpointed exactly how the chemicals get into the water supply. Some of the drugs no doubt survive human digestion and get into the water supply through sewer treatment facilities. Others get into the supply by people flushing unused pills down the toilet. Some communities have recently attempted to discourage this by hosting drug-takeback days.

This study and others like it provide an opportunity for officials get out ahead of a potentially significant long-term health problem by adopting policies, regulations and standards for wastewater treatment and disposal of drugs now.

Environmental problems never get better. The longer they’re allowed to go on, the worse they get -- for plants, animals and people.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/editorial-act-now-to-keep-drugs-out-of-bwaterb-supply636757Esra ( water world news )Editorial: Act now to keep drugs out of <b>water</b> supplySadong Jaya, Asajaya to get <b>treated water</b> from Bengoh, Batu KitangKUCHING: Sadong Jaya and Asajaya constituencies will in future receive treated water supply from the Bengoh Dam Reservoir and Batu Kitang Water Treatment Plant.

Sadong Jaya assemblyman Aidel Lariwoo said he met with Rural Water Supply Department director Chang Kuet Shian last month and communicated with the Kuching Water Board about supplying water through the Bengoh Dam to areas in Sadong Jaya and Asajaya.

“Both the Bengoh Dam Reservoir and the new Batu Kitang Water Treatment Plant have been completed, including main pipes of 1,000mm, 900mm, and 800mm to Mile 6, through to Entingan water tank, all of these just completed,” he said.

He explained that from the Entingan water tank – near the Universiti Teknologi Mara Samarahan Campus – treated water would be supplied to Muara Tuang, Samarahan, Asajaya and Sadong Jaya areas. Aidel said the treated water supply will go through the Tambirat Water Booster Pump Station to boost pressure so that water can be supplied to Asajaya and Sadong Jaya.

He said treated water for the two areas would be supplied through a 700mm main pipe, which was completed a few years ago, as well as water tanks in Moyan and Sadong Jaya.

“If there are no obstructions, maybe the water supply from Batu Kitang Water Treatment plant or Bengoh Dam can be done in our area after the disinfection process on the new system is completed,” he said.

Aidel also pointed out that the treated water supply system in Asajaya and Sadong Jaya could be improved with the installation of new pipes from Batang Samarahan Bridge to match the existing 700mm pipe.

He said there would also be work to replace pipes to villages, and suggested more booster pump stations be built in the two areas.

“These improvements will cost about RM120 million and this matter has been brought up to the government for consideration to be included in the mid-term review of the 11th Malaysia Plan,” he added.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/aerial-video-of-waste-bwater-treatmentb-plant-by-ivnikolay636759Esra ( water world news )Aerial Video of Waste <b>Water Treatment</b> Plant by IvnikolayMandan seeks funding for <b>water</b> system projects

Mandan will be getting a new raw water intake facility, and the 30-inch transmission line that feeds the Sunset Reservoir from the water treatment facility will be replaced.

On Tuesday night, the city commission entered into an agreement with AE2S, who will provide engineering services on the two "imminent" projects.

The new raw water intake will replace the existing 60-year-old facility. Estimated engineering costs on the project are $425,000, with the local share at 35 percent, or $147,000.

The project is eligible for State Water Commission funding. The Andeavor Refinery shares the intake facility, and they've agreed to splitting the local share with Mandan, at $73,500 each, if a SWC grant is awarded. Mandan will pay for the expense with utility fund dollars.

The 30-inch transmission line is in need of replacement, as its condition has been deteriorating over the past several years.

In 1994, the city experienced pipe failures. The line was investigated, during repairs, and it was determined the pipe integrity is subject to both internal and external corrosion, said Jasper Klein, operations manager of AE2S.

During the past 16 months, the pipe experienced three separate breaks, costing the city more than $500,000 to repair, he said.

And, in 2017, the city replaced about 1,000 feet of the transmission line as a proactive response to eliminating breaks, for a cost of $440,000. As the new pipeline was commissioned, a break occurred downstream of the replaced segment, in an original section of pipe.

"This pipeline is a very important piece of infrastructure providing water to northwest Mandan and serving commercial, industrial and residential customers. Without this important infrastructure component in operation, users could be subject to water shortages, low pressure and inadequate fire protection," Klein said.

Engineering through bidding on the 30-inch transmission line replacement is estimated at $405,000. The project has been submitted to the SWC, in an attempt to get state funding dollars. The local share on this project has not been determined.

"We feel we need to get going on project development, to have our best chance of success in receiving State Water Commission funds in order to construct these projects," said Justin Froseth, city planning and engineering director.

Construction on the new intake facility is tentatively scheduled to begin in July 2019, and replacement of the transmission line could begin as early as September.

Water Treatment Plant & Office Replacement

Bid Date & Time: 03/13/18 2:00 PM

Status: biddingReport: 8439382

Country :United States
State: CACounty: Lake

Location: Middletown

Scope: The work includes replacement of a 400 gpm water filtration plant and 1,400 SF single story office building, parking lot and driveway, miscellaneous site improvements and landscaping. Treatment area improvements more specifically include installation of three sand filtration vessels and two granular activated carbon polishing vessels, including foundation slabs, all ancilliary equipment and interconnecting above- and below-grade piping. (sand filters, gac vessels, flow meters, system controls and system integration will be supplied by the owner. ) other site improvements include instrumentation, metering vaults, emergency generator and propane fuel tank, security fencing and miscellaneous small dia. site piping. Off-site improvements will include two small CMU buildings at the district's well site and a small retaining wall at the district's water tank site.

Plans: From Designer. The non-refundable cost for printed documents is $100.00 per set, and $50.00 per compact diskette with electronic copies (portable document format, or PDF) of the contract documents. Printed documents will be shipped upon request using bidder's shipping method of choice 'at cost' after receipt of payment. Mailing of electronic contract documents is included in the price for the documents.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/bid-on-bwater-treatmentb-plant-amp-office-replacement-in-middletown636761Esra ( water world news )Bid on <b>Water Treatment</b> Plant &amp; Office Replacement in MiddletownRedstone takes steps to ensure <b>water</b> safetyThe Garrison water system has incurred a treatment technique violation at water treatment plant 1. Although this is not an emergency, as our customers, you have a right to know what happened, what we are doing to correct this situation and what you should do.

We routinely monitor for the presence of drinking water contaminants. Testing results show that our system was unable to remove the required amount of Total Organic Carbon for third quarter (July-September 2017) at plant 1. Chemical feed rates have been adjusted to better meet the Alabama Department of Environmental Management requirement and a source line has been replaced at plant 1 that supplies the compliance sample basin with finished treated water.

This is not an immediate risk. If it had been, you would have been notified immediately. TOC has no health effects. However, TOC provides a medium for the formation of disinfectant byproducts. These byproducts include trihalomethanes and Haloacetic Acids. Drinking water containing these byproducts in excess of the MCL may lead to adverse health effects, liver or kidney problems, or nervous system effects, and may lead to an increased risk of getting cancer. However, the Garrison routinely monitors for THMS and HAAS. All results have been compliant with ADEM and Environmental Protection Agency standards during the 2017 monitoring period. If you have specific health concerns, consult your doctor.

Please share this ADEM requirement/information with all the other people who drink this water especially those who may not have received this notice. You can do this by posting this notice in a public place or distributing copies by hand or mail.

Should you have questions concerning this violation or monitoring requirements, contact the Garrison Safe Drinking Water Act compliance manager at 955-8230 or eric.r.hoge.civ@mail.mil.

The WWETT show is the largest annual U.S. tradeshow for the wastewater industry. It offers an unmatched educational program, an array of networking opportunities, and an extensive expo floor where buyers and sellers come together to see and experience the latest product innovations and technology.

Dan Cohen, Ecosciences COO, commented, “Attending the WWETT Show will provide us with the opportunity to showcase our innovative Waste-Eze Tabs. Waste-Eze Tabs utilize our proprietary technology to help clean, control odor, and keep wastewater systems running efficiently with reduced downtime. We will be introducing our new literature and packaging, and welcome the opportunity to connect with buyers and marketing representatives. We expect this introduction of Waste-Eze products at the WWETT show to lead to long-term relationships. We can be found at Booth 6752.”

Ecosciences, Inc. focuses on building, acquiring and investing in businesses around ecological and life sciences. From wastewater remediation to healthcare and more, Ecosciences, Inc. is committed to building a better living environment for all people. The Company currently has one wholly-owned subsidiary, Eco-logical Concepts, Inc., which operates the Company's core business of producing and selling bio-remediation products under the brand EcoNow.

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An $850 million settlement is aimed at helping east metro cities with new treatment plants and other projects reduce a chemical produced by 3M. But some say the agreement reached between the Maplewood-based company and the state of Minnesota may not go far enough to reduce the risk they say exists in their water supplies.

3M made perfluorochemicals, or PFCs, for use in nonstick coatings, Scotchguard and other products, in Cottage Grove for decades, and buried the waste in several east Twin Cities metro landfills. Those disposal sites were legal. But in 2004, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency found that PFCs had leached into the groundwater.

When Amy and Joby Randrup bought their home in Cottage Grove the following year, they were unaware of what the MPCA had found. But Randrup says after they learned, they paid a plumber $700 to install a whole-house water filtration system. It costs several hundred dollars a year to maintain.

Randrup says 3M's $850 million payout to mitigate the contamination may sound like a lot. But he fears the money won't go far enough.

"What's going to happen to our environment long term? Is the problem going to get worse? Are we going to get more long-term research that talks about the toxicity levels and what's going to happen to our bodies, let alone the water table?"

Randrup said the company with around $30 billion in annual revenue could pay more. His neighbor Jane Coy agrees.

"What happens when the money runs out? Who's going to be on the hook for it then?" Coy said. "It's probably going to be the taxpayers. That's my concern."

Jane Coy, who has lived in her house for 40 years, installed a granular activated carbon filter in her basement to keep drinking and bathing water free of PFC's. Changing the filter, which Coy does about every 18 months, costs $300.Judy Griesedieck for MPR News

Neither Coy nor Randrup has suffered health problems from PFCs. But even if they had, the 3M money cannot go to individuals because the lawsuit filed in 2010 was based on damage to natural resources.

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson said the state will set up a process for deciding how to distribute the funds. Even though she initially sought $5 billion, Swanson said the agreement announced Tuesday is a good deal for taxpayers.

Last year the Minnesota Department of Health set PFC advisory limits much lower than federal standards, immediately putting seven of Cottage Grove's dozen municipal wells out of commission. Cottage Grove Mayor Myron Bailey said the city built two temporary treatment facilities. He's hopeful 3M's money will cover those expenses and pay for permanent plants that can be upgraded if the health standards change.

"The only way to react to this is to create a treatment facility that will work for the future. And in this particular case, that's what we're going to do. So whether they find out 5 years, 20 years from now that the health base value needs to be lowered again, we don't have to worry about it because we have our treatment facility in place," Bailey said.

The new water treatment facilities could cost Cottage Grove around $50 million.

In Woodbury, public works director Klay Eckles is trying to determine the best solution. He said the city had to reduce reliance on five municipal wells after evidence of PFCs turned up.

Woodbury's options include digging new wells — at about $2 million each — and adding more filtration to Woodbury's existing water plants, Eckles said.

"We've planned contingencies into our system to reduce hardness or treat for other issues and this issue would certainly be one where we could add certain types of treatment like activated carbon or reverse osmosis or something like that."

In a statement, 3M Senior Vice President John Banovetz said the company does not believe there are public health issues related to PFCs, but the settlement is consistent with 3M's commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship.

Attorney General Swanson says the state will receive the full $850 million within two weeks.

This story is part of The Water Main from MPR News, helping Minnesotans understand the value of water in our lives. Check out @thewatermain on Twitter.

The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the visit of Sigrid Kaag, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for Foreign Trade and Development for the Netherlands, and Laetitia van Asch, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Oman. - Supplied picture

Muscat: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Sohar Port and Freezone and Netherlands-based Strukton International for the development of a revolutionary waste water treatment plant at the port.

The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the visit of Sigrid Kaag, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for Foreign Trade and Development for the Netherlands, and Laetitia van Asch, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Oman.

The proposed treatment plant uses the new Verdygo modular technology for efficient and environmentally responsible waste water treatment. The new technology allows the treatment plant to rapidly scale operational capacity and deliver sustainable options for waste water reuse for industry or greenhouses, making a considerable reduction in traditional water and energy demands at the port and free zone.

“We have named 2018 as the year of "Smarter Thinking" at Sohar, and our MoU with Strukton International for an innovative waste water treatment plant underlines our commitment to maximise our use of existing resources. There are many examples of smarter thinking at play in Sohar. We’re in the process of installing PV solar cells around our head office, which will significantly reduce the amount of electricity drawn from the power grid. We are also conducting a feasibility study to convert our port vehicles to run on hydrogen, which is an underutilised by-product of the industry at Sohar,” Mark Geilenkirchen, CEO of Sohar Port, said.

Sohar Port and Freezone welcomed Kaag and van Asch, along with a high-level delegation, on Tuesday.

“Sixteen years ago, the Sultanate entered a joint venture agreement for Sohar Port with the Port of Rotterdam. Being one the world's largest ports and the largest one in Europe, the Port of Rotterdam brought state-of-the-art technologies and best practices to Sohar, allowing the port to employ a best practice methodology across all aspects of operations. Today’s visit gave us an opportunity to discuss areas of common interest in water management, logistics, and clean energy, and explore the latest innovative technologies that can be used to ensure environmental sustainability and energy efficiency at Sohar,” Geilenkirchen said.

Impressed with the Sohar Port, Kaag said, “It’s one of the fastest-growing ports in the world. Bigger than Maasvlakte 2, the latest and most extensive area of Rotterdam’s port, Sohar Port is an extraordinary joint venture of the Port of Rotterdam and the Sultanate. As a major industrial hub, it plays a key role in strengthening our countries’ bilateral economic relations. The port and freezone together account for more than 10 per cent of Oman’s GNP, and make a valuable contribution to the further development and diversification of its economy,” he said.

“The enduring relationship between Oman and the Netherlands is symbolised by shared experience and cooperation in maritime and logistics domain between the Ports of Rotterdam and Sohar. Since the start of operations, Sohar has grown to become a cornerstone of the Sultanate's economy, and one of the most fruitful business relationships between the Middle East with the Netherlands. Today, Sohar Port and Freezone is a successful demonstration of the strong and enduring bilateral ties between Oman and the Netherlands,” van Asch said.

LEMOORE — The city of Lemoore’s new water rate structure went into effect Jan. 1 and was reflected on utility statements starting in January.

This is the second year of rate increases of the four-year plan approved during the Aug. 16, 2016, City Council meeting.

The water rate study was originally presented by the city’s consultant Dan Bergman and former Public Works Director and current interim City Manager Nathan Olson.

The water rate increase was made to cover the cost of infrastructure maintenance and water treatment.

More recently, the city also put out a notice that they were still not in compliance with total trihalomethane (TTHM) levels, but they are working on that.

“Our water has proven to be one of the most difficult water sources in the state,” Olson said.

Next week city officials will meet with state representatives to assess solutions to fix the problem of by-products such as TTHM in the water. Olson said the hope is to be fully compliant by October 2018, but the state understands Lemoore may need an extension due to the “red tape” the city needs to get through.

Some people who drink water containing trihalomethanes for years may experience liver, kidney, or central nervous system problems and a potential increased risk of cancer.

The city’s notice suggested that health concerns about the consumption of Lemoore’s water be discussed with a doctor, but the city also said residents do not need to use alternative water, such as bottled or boiled because the TTHM levels are not an immediate risk.

In 2016, the city received only one letter in opposition. To have a majority in opposition, 51 percent of city water users or approximately 3,001 users would have had to write letters in opposition Olson said. A previous Hanford Sentinel article noted that Lemoore residents during April 19, 2016, council meeting understood that water rates would need to increase.

Olson said there will not be a reassessment of water rates after the coming 2020 increase. He also said the city is trying to save money which may prevent the fourth rate increase.

If the city completes the fourth rate increase, the water rates will be around the median price of water in the Valley at approximately $64 for 15,000 gallons of water in a month, the typical amount used by a family.

Olson said that if the city did not need the money, then the city would not ask for it.

If you have any questions or comments about the water rate increase, please contact the Public Works office at 924-6744.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/bwaterb-and-wastewater-btreatmentb-engineer636463Esra ( water world news )<b>WATER</b> AND WASTEWATER <b>TREATMENT</b> ENGINEER<b>Water Treatment</b> Engineer - South East

Our client currently has a fantastic opportunity for a competent, experienced Water Treatment Engineer to join them in the South West region. Consideration will be given to applicants from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, London and the surrounding areas.

Qualifications & experience:

Will have previous practical experience working within this role and the water treatment industry.Good communication skills, both written and verbal.Must be conversant with Health & Safety issues in the water treatment industry - ACOP - L8.

Key Responsibilities:

Undertake a wide range of water treatment and water hygiene tasks including:Monitor the client's air and water systems to ensure they comply with current Health and Safety legislation.Cleaning, disinfection and chlorination on both hot and cold water systems and cooling towers.Temperature monitoring, conducting routine sampling and analysing water systems.Maintaining and installing dosing systems.Inspection and disinfection of CWST.Legionella and TVC sampling.Servicing TMVs.Liaising with clients on a regular basis.

This is an opportunity to work for a successful company that offers a competitive salary, depending on experience, company vehicle and other benefits.

Future Select are recruiting in the Water Treatment/Hygiene industry; we work with the best clients and candidates and supply the majority of permanent jobs in the market.We would be interested in speaking to candidates with experience in any disciplines from Risk Assessors, Service Engineers, Account Managers and Business Development/Operational Managers through to Director level.

We are inundated with applications, we will endeavour to get back in touch, however if you have applied to Future Select and you have not heard from us after a week, on this occasion, you will not have been successful. Your details will be saved on our system and you will be contacted in the future if a vacancy matches your skills.Future Select Copyright 2018.

Are you looking for the chance to join a forward thinking market leader in a fully autonomous field based role where you will receive career development long term and the chance to boost earnings with overtime?

This is an outstanding opportunity for someone who wants to work for a forward thinking company who will make you a technical expert and play a vital part in growth plans for the business moving forward

The company itself are an industry leading manufacturer who supply heavily to multinational clients around the globe and within the UK. Due to continued success and growth plans they are looking to add to their field-based team.

The role will be covering West Midlands and working closely with other service engineers. You will carry out fault finding and repairs on water softening / related equipment and receive additional technical training to make you an industry expert.

Here is an opportunity for someone who wants to work for a world leader in the industry who will continue upskilling you and progress you long term

The Role:

*Field based role covering the West Midlands and into South Wales *Fault-finding and maintenance on various water treatment equipment *Working as part of a specialist team

The Person:

*Experience fault-finding and maintaining water softeners*Full UK driving license *Wants a mobile / field based role

This vacancy is being advertised by Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd. The services of Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd are that of an Employment Agency.

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd regrets to inform that our client can only accept applications from candidates who have a valid legal permit or right to work in the United Kingdom. Potential candidates who do not have this right or permit, or are pending an application to obtain this right or permit should not apply as your details will not be processed.

Hydro is headquartered in the UK, with significant US operations, and has operated in the water management sector since the 1980s. It employs 219 people, predominantly in the UK and in Maine and Oregon in the US.

Are you a Water Treatment Technician / Engineer with experience of working to L8 standards looking for plenty of overtime working a local patch within a fast-growing specialist company?

On offer is the role of Water Treatment Engineer where you can boost your earnings through overtime, receive ongoing industry training and have the opportunity to progress to senior positions.

This company have been established for almost 50 years and specialise within the Building Services industry in all aspects from design, inspection, maintenance and commissioning. They are constantly expanding due to increasing customer demand and boast an excellent reputation.

This role would suit a Water Treatment Technician / Engineer with experience of working to L8 standards looking for a role working a local patch with plenty of overtime.

THE ROLE * Working a local patch across the East of England * Attending sites and working on a range of domestic projects testing for Legionella* Plenty of overtime, specialist training and progression to supervisory roles

THE PERSON * Water Treatment Engineer / Technician with experience of working to L8 standards* Level 2 Plumbing & Water Regulations * Looking for plenty of overtime working a local patch

Please apply online or call Georgie Mason at Rise Technical for more information

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/mobile-bwater-treatmentb-engineer-legionella636468Esra ( water world news )Mobile <b>Water Treatment</b> Engineer (Legionella)Diazepam (Valium) Can Be Removed From <b>Water</b> At Low Cost, Says UJ&#39;s Prof GuptaA low-cost, efficient one-step method to remove the anxiety drug Diazepam from recycled water and wastewater, using titanium dioxide nanofibers has been developed by researchers headed by University of Johannesburg's Prof Vinod Kumar Gupta.

First marketed as Valium, Diazepam is available in hundreds of brands. The drug is one of three benzodiapezines in the World Health Organisation list of essential medicines, but is also widely abused as an addictive prescription drug.

In cities running out of water, removing pharmaceuticals from wastewater in a simple, low cost way is becoming a priority.

Prescription drugs like Diazepam tend to slip through traditional wastewater treatment plants. These plants are not designed to remove the thousands of different pharmaceuticals in use globally. As drug use increases, legal and illegal pharmaceuticals enter the environment through treated sewage and wastewater discharged from drug manufacturing.

"Existing processes that can remove Diazepam and other drugs at large scale from wastewater are expensive, time consuming, inefficient, or all three. Some also consume a lot of energy in multiple steps, or use toxic and hazardous compounds unfriendly to the environment," says Prof Gupta.

"Also, Diazepam is not easy to remove from wastewater using traditional methods. It is partially soluble and has a small particle size. For efficient, targeted removal, advanced hybrid nanomaterials are needed," he says.

Prof Gupta is the South African Research Chair (SARChI) for Nanotechnology for Water and a Professor in the UJ Department of Applied Chemistry. In January 2018, he was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Used everywhere
Benzodiazepine drugs are used all over the world for anxiety disorders, as anticonvulsants and anti-epileptics, and for terminally ill people as part of essential medicines list from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO list includes Diazepam, first marketed as Valium, as well as Midozolam and Lorazepam. All three are psychoactive drugs, which affect the way a person thinks and feels.

Diazepam, which can be addictive, is available in over 500 brands globally. It has become a widely-abused prescription drug.

In 2017 a team headed by a researcher from New York State University, announced a new method to simultaneously test for 89 legal neuropsychiatric pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in unfiltered wastewater and freshwater. Diazepam and several other benzodiapezines are included in the list.

Also, in 2017, a review of seven psychoactive drugs, and to what extent they show up in the aquatic environment, was published by Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). The review analysed research about Diazepam and five other benzodiapezines.

The researchers found that the presence and concentration of psychoactive drugs (such as Diazepam) is roughly the same in treated wastewater and untreated wastewater. They found that lower-income countries are worse affected. Also, in surface water, psychoactive drugs tested for were "mostly within the range that caused measurable toxic effects in ecotoxicity assays".

The big thirst
As the world rapidly urbanizes, city populations grow significantly in short timescales. In some regions this means that fresh water resources become more constrained. In South Africa, Cape Town residents dread its imminent 'Day Zero': the day the authorities will have to turn off the taps because there will be too little water left in the city's dams and reservoirs.

As a city's options for fresh water become more limited, re-using waste water, even for drinking purposes, becomes a more important option. However, for a city in a developing country, removing pharmaceuticals from waste water needs to happen in an efficient, cost-effective and speedy way. The treated water can then be added back in low volumes to the city's water supply, as is done already in Orange County in California, Singapore and Perth.

Titanium dioxide nanofibers remove Diazepam and related drugs in a targeted way, during the photocatalytic decomposition process. The fibers can be used as filters in municipal or industrial treatment plants, he says.

The filter and screen will be made up of hybrid nanomaterials which are highly efficient in the removal of noxious pharmaceutical and other inorganic and organic impurities from municipal and industrial wastewater, says co-author Dr Ali Fakhri from the Department of Chemistry at Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

"We use a modified hydrothermal manufacturing method, which produces a dense chain network of hollow fibers. The fibers are cross-linked and stable, so there is low risk for fibers to be emitted in the purified wastewater," adds Dr Fakhri.

The nanofibers can be used to remove industrial dyes and other organic pollutants as well. However they need to optimize some important parameters on the fibre structure first, he says.

Concludes Prof Gupa: "The process to make the fibers is also simple and cost-effective. We are planning a pilot plant at the University of Johannesburg to manufacture these nanofibers. Every aspect of the pilot plant is planned to minimize nanofiber pollution to the environment.

"Later the pilot plant will be followed by a demonstration wastewater treatment plant, to show how nanotechnology can remove a range of pharmaceutical impurities efficiently, rapidly, and at low cost."

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A stone's throw from Sydney and Canberra, Wingecarribee Shire boasts the best of urban bustle and rural quiet. It offers that true sense of community, natural beauty, and enviable lifestyle only semirural living can offer. At Council we strive to make it an even better place to live. That's our vision. This is your chance to add to it.

Training and Development Opportunities, Join Our Team Today.

About the role

The Water and Sewer Branch is currently seeking an enthusiastic applicant for the newly created position of Water Headworks Engineer. The primary purpose of this position is to manage a team that undertakes the operation, inspection, maintenance and renewal works associated with the water treatment infrastructure. Ensures the treatment process, activities and water quality comply with Councils adopted DWMS, ADWG, regulatory conditions and all the associated facilities are operated and maintained efficiently and in a safe manner

Salary for the position will be $80,838 - $93,772 p.a. + 3.5% CLA + 9.5% Super, dependent upon qualifications, practical knowledge and experience in water headworks.

About you

In addition to relevant experience within the water and sewer treatment industry and a recognised Bachelor Degree qualification in Science or Engineering with demonstrated practical experience, the successful applicant will be an accountable team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills.

More specifically, responsibilities will include:

Achieving best operating practices for all water treatment plants and applicable pumping stations.

Supervising the regulatory sampling analysis program.

Leading and managing staff development and skills and a positive involvement in staff selection, performance and development.

Monitoring operational and capital budgets for all water treatment areas as directed by the Water Coordinator

You may be required to participate in the out of hours roster from time to time.

About us

Located in the Southern Highlands, Wingecarribee Shire Council is within comfortable travelling distance of Sydney, Canberra, the South Coast and the Illawarra. With four distinctive and stunning seasons combined with glorious countryside rich in biodiversity and appeal, it is an enviable lifestyle location.

To Apply

Applications including a cover letter and resume are to be submitted online by visiting www.wsc.nsw.gov.au (Careers @ Council). The Selection Criteria is contained in the online application process. Applications not addressing the Essential and Desirable Selection Criteria in the application process may not be considered. All documents are to be attached either as a PDF or Microsoft Office Word document.

The online process allows for two (2) separate items to be uploaded i.e. Resume, Covering Letter and your statement addressing the Selection Criteria as part of the online process.

For a confidential discussion or to obtain further information please contact Graeme Mellor, Coordinator Water Coordinator on (02) 4868 0532.

Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered for the position.

Applications close Sunday 11 March 2018.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/bwater-treatmentb-chemicals-and-technology-market-forecast-research-report-till-2024-trends636472Esra ( water world news )<b>Water Treatment</b> Chemicals And Technology Market | Forecast Research Report Till 2024 Trends ...Students experienced Cape Town&#39;s approach to &quot;Day Zero&quot;Cape Town, South Africa, is quickly running out of water. After years of drought and conservation initiative projects, the city is preparing its residents for “Day Zero,” the day that water will stop flowing from taps all over the city when their reservoir water levels drop below 13.5 percent. The city, home to 3.7 million people, is expected to have the water shut off on June 4. Water will stop flowing from all taps that are deemed of necessity such as hospitals, according to USA Today.

When the taps are shut off, residents will be limited to 6.6 gallons a day per person. In order to gather this water, they will go to a municipal water point. Right now, The city has about 90 days of water left, with each individual allowed to use 13.2 gallons a day.

Every year, LMU students have the opportunity to study abroad in Cape Town, South Africa through LMU’s partnership with Marquette University. This study abroad opportunity is offered in both the fall and spring semesters and is a South Africa Service Learning Program, according to LMU's Study Abroad Office website.

“At first they told us we must limit our showers to up to three minutes. So we all would play one of our favorite songs and once it ended we knew we had to get out of the shower,” said Stephan Muccular Jr., a junior finance major who studied abroad in Cape Town during the fall 2017 semester.

Muccular added that water was severely limited within households, and once the allotted amount was reached – the water would shut off. He said while there, it was important not to flush the toilet often, as that contributed to water use, and that they were not permitted to order water at restaurants if they were not going to finish it completely.

Some people are leaving Cape Town until the drought subsides, according to CNN.

Others who cannot afford to do so must wait in long lines at municipal water points, for their limited supply of water left in grocery stores and walking to springs. Additionally, many residents are reluctant to drink the tap water out of fear that it may not be completely safe.

“People in poorer communities — they’re called townships — are gonna be affected the most,” said Jermaine Johnson II, a junior marketing major who also studied abroad in Cape Town. “Seeing they won’t be able to afford to consistently buy bottled water. And are going to have to walk far to get clean water.”

Cape Town is hoping for a rainy spring, to help ease the severity of the situation. Those who can afford it are purchasing anything that can be used to capture water. However, low-income individuals have not altered their habits as much as the wealthier individuals. Many of the low-income households did not have access to water in their home before the crisis, meaning they relied on public pumps anyway, according to USA Today.

Johnson said he doesn’t believe that these individuals’ daily water needs will not be met with just the amount they can physically carry. Additionally, water was often shut off completely during certain hours of the day, and purchasing bottled water was heavily encouraged.

“There is obviously conservation, which is relatively inexpensive. It could be free if you are willing to give up conveniences like dishwashers, washing machines and lawns. But improving water efficiency can cost some nominal amount of money,” said Joseph Reichenberger, professor of civil engineering and environmental science.

Reichenberger added that next to conservation, another relatively cheap source of water conservation is utilizing recycled water sources, such as treated wastewater from toilets and sinks.

“Here in L.A., we as residents can do a better job of using water wisely. We should increase the amount of water recycling we do,” said Reichenberger.

“The three-year drought caught them all off guard, and they’re needing to take drastic measures to cope until water supplies can be replenished. During this period, if they continue with the heavy rationing, they will be dealing with social disorder as people use all means possible to get fresh water,” said John Dorsey, professor of civil engineering and environmental science.

He added that climate change is here to stay, so extreme weather conditions such as these should be expected in many Mediterranean climates, including L.A.

Water conservation projects started long ago, and they are only half done as of present day. These projects include, “desalination plants to convert seawater to fresh drinking water, drilling more deep wells and constructing a tertiary water treatment plant that will produce drinking water from treated wastewater,” said Dorsey.

“Day Zero” is constantly updated and monitored by the government every week and the fluctuating predicted dates of when Day Zero will hit are based on daily water consumption and reservoir capacity, according to Time.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/construction-prep-for-access-bridge-underway636245Esra ( water world news )http://www.westernwheel.com/Assets/images/WHE/logo-rwd.pngConstruction prep for access bridge underwayThousands remain without power and <b>water</b> in Taranaki in wake of Cyclone Gita

Residents in eastern New Plymouth and towns to the east are being told to boil their drinking water as they clean up after Cyclone Gita.

Essential services have been cut to thousands of homes and businesses by extreme winds in the region.Source: 1 NEWS

The boil-water notice today applies to more than 26,000 properties.

Yesterday, Gita's strong winds brought down a tree that destroyed a bridge carrying one of the biggest pipes from the New Plymouth water treatment plant.

People watching the waves got more than they bargained for and the city's famous Len Lye Wind Wand leaned dramatically in the gale.Source: 1 NEWS

The damage is having a major impact on supplies to the affected areas and water tankers have been deployed in six locations.

A state of emergency remains in New Plymouth District, but has been lifted for Stratford and South Taranaki.

It also remains in the Nelson Tasman region, where the only road into Golden Bay will be closed for at least several days.

State Highway 60 on the Riwaka side of Takaka Hill has been severely damaged in several places and Civil Defence says repairs could take some time.

The NZ Transport Agency will provide an update tomorrow morning, but the closure has left about 6000 Golden Day residents cut off from the rest of the country.

Civil Defence says it has arranged for a delivery of food and essential supplies by barge to Port Tarakohe, with arrival scheduled for late Wednesday or early Thursday.

Elsewhere, states of emergency in Buller, Grey, Westland and Selwyn districts, and Christchurch were lifted today.

Buller Mayor Garry Howard says there was minimal damage to the district from Gita.

"Things didn't eventuate as bad as we were expecting," he said.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/membrane-waste-bwater-treatmentb-wwt636247Esra ( water world news )Membrane Waste <b>Water Treatment</b> (WWT)Clearing Discolored <b>Water</b> InstructionsDear Residents, Given that this is the time of year when water utilities experience a majority of water main breaks, it is also the time when a majority of the discolored water events occur as well. Here are some basic instructions on how to clear the discolored water from your home: 1. First and foremost, please wait for the work being performed to be completed. Please the Disitrct Website as we try to keep all notices updated with information and timelines as best as we can. 2. Once the work has been completed wait for approximately a half hour and then run the cold water tap in your tub until it runs clear; if it does not clear in five to ten minutes shut off the water and wait an additional 45 minutes to 1 hour to try again 3. After the tub tap runs clear, run all other cold water taps until clear, this should now have cleared the discolored water 4. If hot water was used during discoloration, you may want to flush the hot water tank and lines as well. Most hot water tanks have taps on the bottom of them which a garden hose can screw onto. Run it until it becomes clear, 5 minutes is about average 5. One note of interest and a good rule follow for home maintaince, when doing spring cleaning considering flushing out your hot water tank. Given that it may collect discolored water from the events over the winter.
]]>http://waterworldnews.net/clearing-discolored-bwaterb-instructions636248Esra ( water world news )Clearing Discolored <b>Water</b> InstructionsMembrane Waste <b>Water Treatment</b> (WWT) Market Trends and Demand Drivers Reviewed for 2018 ...The latest trending report Global Flow Chemistry Market by Manufacturers, Countries, Type and Application, Forecast to 2022 offered by DecisionDatabases.com is an informative study covering the market with detailed analysis. The report will assist reader with better understanding and decision making.

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In a report to council, parks manager Rod March said the Ministry of Environment’s conservation office recently sent notification that nuisance wildlife control within the municipal boundaries is now the responsibility of the city. It is now a common practice within most Saskatchewan municipalities, he said.

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Any complaints received by their office for smaller animals will be forwarded to the city for resolution.

“The calls to the city regarding nuisance wildlife, specifically coyotes, have increased in recent years, therefore the duties of the pest control officer require revisions along with additional permits and licensing,” wrote March.

The bylaw change will give March authority for control of animals such as coyotes. The city’s bylaw enforcement officer is involved with incidents regarding sedentary pests on private property which are not effectively controlled by the property owner.

Councillor Shelly Veroba said some people have approached her about coyotes in the city, and people want to know what to do if they encounter the animals.

Mayor Roy Ludwig said that once the bylaw is passed, March will have the licence to dart the animals and take them out of the community.

Council is scheduled to give second and third readings at their Feb. 26 meeting.

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City council received the list of property taxes that are in arrears. Property owners have nearly 60 days to pay the arrears and costs. All properties outstanding after this period will have a tax lien registered.

City manager Jeff Ward said the list was higher than normal due to the 2017 reassessment, and there are three properties still in the appeal stage.

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The building permit report for January showed that there was one residential renovation permit issued last month, with a value of $25,000.

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Shane Bucsis, the new water and wastewater superintendent for the city, filed the annual report on drinking water for the city. Bucsis noted that the city’s annual average total trihalomethanes (TTHM) were above the maximum acceptable concentration set by the Water Security Agency in 2017. The expectation is 100 parts per billion and 2017’s average for Estevan was 118 parts per billion.

When the city shifts its primary water source to Rafferty Dam, which is expected to happen next year, it is expected to decrease the number of TTHM’s because Rafferty’s water contains lower amounts of dissolved organic carbons.

The TTHMs were the only constituent that never met the regulatory maximum contaminate level in 2017, he said.

“The new intake and pipeline obtaining water from Rafferty Reservoir will greatly improve the quality of the water for the city of Estevan and bring all the constituents in the water to levels required by our permit to operate,” wrote Bucsis.

The federal and provincial governments will each contribute one-third of the cost of the water intake project; the city is responsible for the remaining one-third.

Bucsis also noted that last year saw the completion of the residuals management project at the water treatment plant, which will end the process of discharging waste from the water treatment process into the Souris River.

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HANNIBAL, Mo. -- After several months of hearing the pros and cons of employe a granulated activated carbon or reverse osmosis system to filter Hannibal's drinking water, Hannibal Board of Public Works directors made a decision Tuesday.

With no debate, the BPW Board unanimously selected the granulated activated carbon system. Vice President Tim Goodman was absent for the BPW's monthly meeting.

The granulated activated carbon system, which uses a carbon filter to trap contaminants, had been the filtration method of choice for more than a year. However, it wasn't until December that the BPW learned that reverse osmosis, where water is pushed through a semipermeable membrane to remove contaminants, was a cost-comparable and equally efficient option.

Proposition 1, passed in April to require that the BPW end the use of ammonia to purify water, necessitated the decision on a new filtration method.

The engineering firm Black & Veatch estimates that a granulated activated carbon system will cost $14.35 million to install and have annual operating and maintenance costs of about $691,000.

BPW General Manager Bob Stevenson previously said he expects utility rates to increase by about 50 percent to pay for the new filtration system. He said Tuesday that the Ralls County Public Water Supply District, one of the BPW's biggest purchasers of water, will stop being a customer in 2019, thus affecting utility rates further.

A water cost of service study is underway to determine new rates.

"We should know what the new rates will be in two to three months so that we can begin making smaller adjustments as soon as possible to avoid the rate shock that is bound to come," Stevenson said.

Black & Veatch on Tuesday was awarded a design contract for the granulated activated carbon system. The firm estimates that the design process will take 10 months, the bid phase to follow will take three months, then the construction phase will take 13 months. The firm anticipates having the new water treatment facility operating by March 2020.

Stevenson, who is retiring in March, told the board at the start of the meeting that "the decision you are about to make is going to have a profound and long-term effect on the city as a whole and reflect on our ability to compete for new industry, keep the industry we have, and keep our water affordable for those on fixed incomes."

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A MoE spokeswoman said there would not be a blanket closure and decisions to keep the school gates shut would be made by each school's board of trustees.

The water restrictions were one of the many effects felt across Taranaki after ex-cyclone Gita crossed the country on Tuesday.

Strong winds caused a large tree to fall and destroy a pipe bridge that carries one of the city's biggest water pipes near the New Plymouth Water Treatment Plant, cutting off water supply to the eastern part of the New Plymouth District.

New Plymouth Girls' High School, New Plymouth Boys' High School, Spotswood College, Sacred Heart Girls' College, Devon Intermediate, Highlands Intermediate and many primary schools were among the schools to close early on Wednesday.

Students began spilling into the streets, playgrounds and beaches after midday while parents either left work early or made arrangements to have their children collected.

Spotswood College students Rebekah Bishop, 15, and Poutama Whitinui, 15, quickly made their way to Ngāmotu Beach for a swim.

"We were in class and the Dean came in and told us we were finished for the day and not to drink any water," Bishop said.

"We were quite excited".

Whitinui welcomed the news and said many students had hoped the school would not open at all Wednesday.

It is understood all schools in coastal Taranaki closed on Wednesday as power had not yet been restored to the area after thousands of homes across the province lost its supply Tuesday afternoon.

Brothers Hetairoa Goodin, 12, and Lathanael Goodin, 15, spent the day at the beach with their parents after Coastal Taranaki School in Okato did not open.

"It's good to have a day off sometimes," Hetairoa said.

Dad Paul Goodin was a shift worker with the day off and so was able to watch the children, and his grandson Jahk Davy whose kindergarten was also closed.

"But I did have plans which didn't involve them," he quipped.

Taranaki Civil Defence said damage to the pipe had had a major impact on water supplies to eastern New Plymouth and townships to the east of the city.

Water pressure is low or non-existent in the affected areas and is starting to fail in places, it said. Residents in the east of the district have been asked not to flush their toilets and water tankers have been sent to deliver fresh water to residents.

Residents in the rest of the district have been asked to conserve water and only use it to flush toilets and boil it for consumption. It has been advised supply is set to be restored on Friday but water should be boiled for up to one week.

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A state of emergency remains in effect in New Plymouth due to the water outage and there is a total ban on using water for gardens or outside washing, level 4 water restrictions apply.

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The city of Flint is far from assuring adequate coverage and information of the water crisis recovery needs of its most vulnerable citizens, many of whom remain deeply distrustful of tap water, have not tested their water for lead, are not confident in their use of filters or don’t have one, and yet still are attempting to follow guidelines for protecting their children and the elderly.

Those are among conclusions released last week from a survey collected in December from more than 2,000 Flint residents. It was created and distributed out of “total fear” for the community, its organizers say, as the State of Michigan moved to reduce or withdraw water crisis support.

Survey spokeswoman Rev. Monica Villareal, pastor of Salem Lutheran Church, an activist throughout the water crisis and organizer of the survey project, reviewed results from the 2,029 surveys last week to local media in a report, “From Crisis to Recovery–Household Resources: A Flint Community Survey.”

While testing according to most official reports indicate lead in the city’s water has dropped below federal action levels, many activists insist the crisis is not yet over and warn that pipeline replacement activity, a lack of proper testing, and other complications mark the need for continued watchfulness and ongoing state services.

How survey came to be

Villareal led the survey process conducted by the communications workgroup of FACT Community Partners. FACT (Flint Action Coordination Team) — also sometimes called Flint Cares — is a coalition of community leaders, activists and residents who came together around the water crisis in late 2015 as the gravity of the situation emerged.

Last Dec. 6, FACT members learned that state officials planned to stop bottle water distribution in January, rather than March as had been previously planned. The sudden need to respond to the threatened change galvanized Villareal and others to gather information about whether, in fact, the community was moving toward recovery. Ultimately, the January cut-off did not occur, but local activists had been energized to immediately check in with their clients and residents about state water crisis programs.

Villareal was joined in the presentation by Carma Lewis, community outreach coordinator of FACT Community Partners; Jane Richardson, special projects facilitator of the Neighborhood Engagement Hub; and Laura Sullivan, Kettering University professor, a deeply involved water activist.

The one-page, 16-item questionnaire went out during two weeks in late December – with extra days added following a snowstorm.

The questionnaire was targeted to residents likely to be in the most vulnerable categories — those making use of three state-supported programs. Those programs were the four remaining PODs, or point of distribution water supply stations; three HELP Centers—privately funded venues for water, food and other assistance, at three area churches; and the Access and Functional Needs (AFN) programs – those designed for senior citizens, the disabled, and the homebound–basically the most vulnerable dependent families.

Many of the services for residents covered in the survey are outcomes ordered in the March, 2017 U.S. District Court settlement of a lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) by plaintiffs the Concerned Pastors for Social Action and Flint resident Melissa Mays. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU and the National Resources Defense Council.

The MDEQ has been implicated in decisions leading to the water crisis, which was triggered by the city’s switch from Lake Huron water to Flint River water when the city was under state-appointed emergency financial manager Darnell Earley in April, 2014. What followed the switch was a trail of improper water treatment, doctored data, the leaching of lead into the city’s water, and the consequent lead poisoning of children and the elderly. So far 15 state and local officials have been indicted in the aftereffects.

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Respondents to the survey came from all nine wards of the city.

One third had at least one child under the age of six, one third had a household member over the age of 60. This matters because the medical community has indicated these two populations should be the most careful regarding exposure to lead, recommending that until the risk of lead exposure is fullyresolved in Flit, bottled water is likely the safest choice.

In addition to typical demographic information, the survey asked residents about their quantity and uses of bottle water, lead testing, service lines, their use of filters and what services from the state they believe should be provided.

Key findings:

State support:

Large majorities of the respondents believe the State of Michigan should continue providing bottled water (93 percent) faucet filters (84 percent) support for the PODs (84 percent) replacement cartridges (76 percent) water delivery (75 percent) water bill assistance (69 percent) and mental and physical health services (59 and 54 percent respectively).

Bottled water use continues:

96 percent still use bottled water for cooking, 91 percent for brushing teeth.

Close to 60 percent use bottled water for bathing, 48 percent for washing hands, 35 percent for pets, 23 percent for baby formula (much higher—48 percent) in homes with babies, obviously) 9 percent for flushing toilets.

The average household in the survey group uses 14.7 cases of water per week.

Filter use: A significant percentage of respondents (51 percent) either don’t have a water filter installed in their home, or report low confidence in filter use. These answers provide insight, the report asserts, into the effectiveness of the Community Outreach and Education (CORE) program to educate residents on filter use.

Lead Testing deficits:

About 40 percent of participants reported never having had their water tested for lead. For more than half the participants, household water had not been tested for lead in the past year. About 39 percent said they did not know how to test their water for lead, and 70 percent said they did not know the composition of their service lines.

“The extent to which residents have their water tested and the frequency of water testing, raise concerns about resident understanding of the importance of water quality monitoring and access to water testing kits,” the report writers concluded. “Lack of knowledge regarding the composition of their own service line is also indicative that residents who participated in the survey have not benefited from programs that would help them understand their level of risk.”

CORE workers, mostly Flint residents hired as part of the lawsuit settlement, have been going door-to-door in the last year with filters, replacement cartridges, and water crisis resource information. If invited in, they are trained to check and install faucet filters.

The data about CORE services should not be interpreted as a failure of the ground-level CORE workers, Villareal said.

“This is a critique of the program, not the worker. MEDQ failures are systemic,” she said.

“The CORE program is greatly needed,” Villareal added in an email after the presentation. “With more community input and collaboration, it is hoped that the State of Michigan will create a more effective program design and evaluation process that will improve the outcomes of the CORE Program and ultimately better meet the needs of Flint residents. Until there is no longer any public health risk, the availability of State funded bottled water is necessary.

Asked for a response to the survey from the MDEQ, Tiffany Brown, MDEQ public information officer, acknowledged she had seen the report and been present for a discussion of it in Flint last week. She stated, “I invited Pastor Monica the opportunity to meet with myself and CORE leadership to learn more about the survey and discuss any opportunities to work together to better serve residents.

“Overall, we are very pleased with the work being done by the CORE, water quality improvements and progress happening in the city.”

Presented with that statement, Laura Sullivan replied, “Are we to gather that the criteria by which we judge the efficacy of the CORE program is whether or not MDEQ is very pleased with the work? Seriously? Do they not recall the trouble that occurred in 2014 when they responded to resident concerns by saying they were pleased with the situation in Flint?”

Villareal confirmed the MDEQ has extended an invitation to meet again and that the invite has been accepted.

She said “This was probably the quickest project that I have ever been a part of – especially for the amount of data that we received. People put their heart and soul over the holidays, realizing the impact and the necessity to better understand.”

“We hope for public momentum around it — this is a big deal.,” she added. “We hope that our state government officials, among others, will use this to better inform programs moving forward.”

“No entity has asked the people of Flint what they need and then responded with an answer,” Sullivan said. “One reason for the numbers and for the pace and for the request to have this published is to demonstrate to the people of Flint somebody’s listening, somebody’s using the information they provided to try to help them, and isn’t being quiet about it,” she continued. “It’s being as transparent and as open and putting it in as many places as we can.

“Maybe this is a way of trying to build trust in a little piece of Flint,” Sullivan said.

Among the total of 2,029 usable surveys returned, a “massive number,” according to Villareal, many were handwritten, and 56 percent included their names—a poignant sign, Villareal and others asserted, of residents’ strong wish to be known and heard.

“The effects of the water crisis continue to impact the daily lives of Flint residents,” the report states in its conclusion.

“Flint residents are expending extra effort to protect their household from lead exposure. While most residents surveyed have a faucet filter installed, a significant portion of the population surveyed indicated they do not have a faucet filter installed. A reported lack of confidence in using and maintaining faucet filters underscores gaps in the CORE Program and indicates that Flint residents are not sufficiently protected from the potential of large-scale lead releases, particularly as service lines continue to be replaced through 2020” – one of the terms of the March, 2017 lawsuit settlement.

EVM Editor Jan Worth-Nelson can be reached at janworth1118@gmail.com.

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The “local economy … is very strong,” he said.

In the last year, commercial development has continued to tick up across the city, with 17 new and expanded firms announcing a total of 690 new jobs and more than $136 million in new capital investment in Gainesville.

“2017 will be remembered as another year of record development activity in Gainesville,” Dunagan said.

The Gainesville Community Development Department issued more than 2,500 building permits, and residential construction continued at a record annual pace, with 412 new home permits issued.

Major new multifamily housing projects include the redeveloped public housing complex on Atlanta Street into a mixed-income property known as Walton Summit.

“The addition of downtown housing, new retail, restaurants and two additional levels on the Gainesville parking deck will enhance an already successful downtown,” Dunagan said. “We are looking for ways to minimize the impact these projects will have on parking and partnering with other utility companies to replace aging infrastructure on several downtown streets.”

The city has done its own investing, as well, with $66 million in infrastructure projects planned through the 2022 fiscal year, including streetscaping, relocating fire station No. 2, water quality improvements and transportation projects.

Moreover, “at the end of this year we will complete a $9 million dollar water quality building at Riverside Water Treatment Plant,” Dunagan said. “Since one of our main goals is to protect Lake Lanier, we will begin construction soon on replacing the outlet where the Linwood Water Reclamation Facility discharges water into the lake to ensure water quality.”

The Gainesville metro area has lowest unemployment rate of any in Georgia. And recently, Dunagan noted, the Milken Institute named Gainesville-Hall County No. 3 in the nation in its Best Performing Small Cities index.

Meanwhile, Dunagan spotlighted public safety improvements with automobile crashes down 3 percent citywide last year as law enforcement focused on the Dawsonville Highway corridor.

Persons and property crimes were down one percent, as the police department responded to about 70,000 calls for service. And the fire department responded to about 8,500 calls last year.

Relieving traffic congestion has been a major focus of city leaders as growth continues and transportation projects come to the fore.

“I am pleased to report we are doing more than ever to manage traffic in Gainesville,” Dunagan said.

This includes the launch of the Intelligent Transportation System, which allows traffic signals to be visually monitored and controlled from a remote location.

“This system has been successfully implemented along Dawsonville Highway and allowed for much improved transportation management during the peak holiday shopping periods,” Dunagan said.

Studies to improve traffic flow along other main arteries, such as Green Street, were completed last year, and city officials are reviewing proposals to add roundabouts at several locations.

In closing, Dunagan thanked the 792 employees “who keep the water running, the garbage picked up and the streets safe.”

“There’s not a week that goes by that we don’t get a phone call or an email about how our employees go above and beyond,” Dunagan added. “I am truly grateful to be here with each of you tonight and be able to recognize so many wonderful people who make me proud to call Gainesville my home.”

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SPV also developed special types of viscose fiber to meet the unique demands of new generation high-speed yarn spinning technologies such as Open-End (OE) and Vortex (Murata MVS and Rieter J10) spinning. These tailor-made fiber variants featuring excellent quality and production efficiency have helped SPV to become the leading supplier of viscose fibers for Open-End and Vortex applications in Indonesia and in its export markets

SPV’s extensive fiber portfolio combined with its excellent quality and consistency have helped Indonesian spinners to firmly establish themselves in global yarn markets. Over the years SPV’s customer base has successfully penetrated and increased their market share in the Americas, Europe and in Asia.SPV has been producing viscose fibers for nonwoven applications since the year 1998. Some 50,000 tons of nonwoven fibers are produced annually for hygienic, medical and cosmetic applications such as products for infant care, makeup removal, refreshing tissues, wound dressings and surgical gowns. SPV’s fibers are of exceptional purity and cleanliness and ideal for sensitive applications thanks to their high absorbency and softness

Mode Hair Plus manager Kelsi Barriball had to reschedule clients after being told to close by the council due to a water shortage.

Cafes and hairdressers in New Plymouth have been caught out by a council direction to shut due to water restrictions.

Ex-cyclone Gita caused a large tree caused a large tree to fall and destroy a pipe bridge that carries one of the city's biggest water pipes near the New Plymouth Water Treatment Plant on Tuesday afternoon.

Water restrictions and a boil water notice have been put in place until repairs are made.

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The taps are running dry in New Plymouth after damage to a water pipe in Tuesday's storm.

"All big water users have been asked to stop using water and small businesses that use water – such as hairdressers and coffee shops – should also close until the water supply is restored," the New Plymouth District Council said in a statement.

The council then updated its statement to say it was up to businesses to decide if they should shut, however all water must be boiled first before being consumed, but it made no mention of water use by hairdressers and other consumers.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/ro-system-begins-testing-to-remove-genx-from-county-bwaterb635839Esra ( water world news )RO system begins testing to remove GenX from county <b>water</b><b>Purifying</b> technology used during Flint <b>water</b> crisis sent to Puerto RicoFLINT (WJRT) (2/20/2018) - It's been months since a hurricane plowed through Puerto Rico, and still many are living without water suitable to drink.

"Once all the power went out they have no way to either treat or distribute their water," says William Korreck, president of Global Treatment Solutions.

With Global Treatment Solution's Water Wagon, Korreck and his partners at DTE Energy are hoping to change that.

"The Flint water crisis kind of highlighted an international problem with water quality," Korreck said. "We go involved in treating the lead problem here which was the initial idea behind this water wagon. We would take this to community events, churches and whatever to provide purified water the the citizens of Flint."

Now, the water wagon is traveling nearly 2,000 miles through land and sea to get to the people of Puerto Rico.

"We're hearing and seeing horror stories of people drinking straight out of streams and all the health risks that would be associated with that, so we felt compelled to at least get some of that technology down there to help," Korreck said.

The Genesee County-based company says it only takes six minutes to go from a dingy brown hazardous liquid to being purified and able to drink.

The water wagon has already taken off and will be returning to Michigan in about a month.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/bpurifyingb-technology-used-during-flint-bwaterb-crisis-sent-to-puerto-rico635840Esra ( water world news )<b>Purifying</b> technology used during Flint <b>water</b> crisis sent to Puerto Rico<b>Water Treatment</b> Sales ConsultantThis client based, well-established water treatment/water hygiene company with a large presence nationwide is currently looking to recruit an experienced Water Treatment Business Development Sales Executive to work for their company in the North West region. Applications will be considered from Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and the surrounding areas.

Qualifications & Experience:

They are looking for a professional who ideally must come from strong chemical, technical, sales, accounts, consultancy, management and business development background.Previous experience of working in this role within the water treatment/legionella industry.Must have a thorough knowledge of the Water Treatment industry.Possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.Will be proficient in using the Microsoft Office Package.Good planning and organisational skills are essential.

Key Role:

Cross selling the company's water treatment/hygiene/legionella consultancy services to a mixed portfolio of clients.Preparing quotes and tenders.Key Performance Indicators.Attending meetings and networking as and when required.Building and maintaining a good relationship with clients/customers.Managing the staff (Water Treatment Engineers) and sales effectively.Increasing customer base by maximising sales opportunities even further.Hitting targets and achieving goals. Completing reports to present to sales manager.Allocation of jobs.Promoting good practice with regards to jobs undertaken - complying with ACOP - L8.Ensuring that the contractors deliver satisfactory service and at the same time identifying any savings on costs.Proven and demonstrable sales ability specifically new business (ideally in solution selling)Updating CRM

Attributes:

The successful candidate will be a strong team player whilst having the ability to work independently and having a positive attitude.They will also be committed with the drive and ability to take the business forward.

This is a good opportunity for an individual to join a highly successful company that offer a fantastic salary, depending on experience, company car and many other benefits.

Future Select are recruiting in the Water Treatment/Hygiene Industry, we work with the best clients and candidates and supply the majority of permanent jobs in the market. We would be interested in speaking to candidates with experience in any disciplines from Risk Assessors, Service Engineers, Managers (Accounts, Business Development, Operational) through to Director level.

We are inundated with applications, we will endeavour to get back in touch, however if you have applied to Future Select and you have not heard from us after a week, on this occasion, you will not have been successful. Your details will be saved on our system and you will be contacted in the future if a vacancy matches your skills.

Detroit's Great Lakes Water Authority is slated to partner with the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and Michigan State University on using wastewater sensors and other technology.

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The Great Lakes Water Authority in Detroit, which provides water and wastewater services to 127 municipalities in southeast Michigan, today announced it is partnering with the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and Michigan State University on using wastewater sensors, regenerative energy, and improving water quality tracking.

“The Authority is always seeking out partnerships that will help us pioneer solutions to optimize our operations,” says Sue McCormick, CEO of the GLWA. “At our core, we are scientists and engineers, and the treatment and other processes that occur in our plants and piping systems depend heavily on complicated chemistry, microbiology, and hydraulics.

“If there are ways to enhance our ability to deliver water of unquestionable quality and effective, efficient wastewater services through new technology or breakthrough research, we want to seize those opportunities.”

The research will focus on a cross-section of projects, including, but not limited to:

1. Dynamic Collection System Control (U-M)

This project will examine the feasibility of using sensors to send real-time data to GLWA operators, who will then be able to use that data to control storm water flow in the system. This will assist the Authority in avoiding discharges to the environment and water backups during large storms.

2. Energy Generation from Biosolids (MSU)

The Authority is working with researchers to understand how it can repurpose bio-solids, along with organic waste, to generate energy, which could potentially help GLWA’s Water Resource Recovery Facility, perhaps meeting all of its energy needs.

3. Drinking Water Monitoring System Enhancement (WSU)

The project will enhance an existing system that captures data on water quality from Lake Huron to Lake Erie. There are 15 utility systems, including GLWA, that draw source water from the 80-mile stretch of these connected waterways to serve people in various communities. This research will be compiled into one central database, and it will be available to all involved water utilities to monitor changing water quality along the waterways. The results of the project will help to better pinpoint where water quality may shift along the route, and serve as an early warning system. The enhancements being made via the research will further leverage an investment being by the state of Michigan which will provide updated equipment for the monitoring system.

4. Contaminants of Emerging Concern of Drinking Water Treatment (WSU)

The Environmental Protection Agency periodically publishes contaminants of emerging concern in drinking water due to occurrence data across the country. The project will evaluate the GLWA drinking water treatment process if exposed to these harmful chemicals, and assess the efficiency of the removal of selected chemicals at each water treatment process step under various conditions.

“The purpose of these partnerships is to continue improving GLWA’s water treatment processes, discover solutions for unanticipated risks, and reduce energy consumption, thereby reducing polluting emissions, among other things,” says Cheryl Porter, COO of the GLWA. “This innovative new approach to water and sewerage treatment is also anticipated to help GLWA attract and retain top talent in the state of Michigan, and provide a hands-on learning experience to students.”

For more information on the Authority, please visit www.glwater.org.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/great-lakes-bwaterb-authority-in-detroit-partners-with-um-msu-and-wsu-on-wastewater-sensors636054Esra ( water world news )Great Lakes <b>Water</b> Authority in Detroit Partners with UM, MSU, and WSU on Wastewater Sensors ...<b>Water treatment</b> plant construction processhttp://waterworldnews.net/bwater-treatmentb-plant-construction-process635841Esra ( water world news )<b>Water treatment</b> plant construction processSmall group of volunteers having big impact on Lehigh Valley&#39;s <b>water</b> resourcesThere is little doubt that the Lehigh Valley’s diverse employment opportunities, relatively affordable cost of living and proximity to Philadelphia and New York make it a great place for people to live, work and play. So much so that the region, with a population that’s now well over 650,000, is often mentioned as one of the fastest growing in the state.

While the valley’s many pluses, which also include excellent arts and cultural attractions and easy access to outdoor recreation opportunities, make it a desirable home for many people, the accompanying population growth and development in recent years have also put additional strain on the area’s waterways and natural resources. That’s why Nathan Pritchard sees Penn State Extension’s Master Watershed Steward program as a crucial initiative for protecting these water resources and helping to educate people about their importance.

“The natural resources of the Lehigh Valley, especially water resources, are under tremendous pressure as the area develops,” said Pritchard, the Northampton County Conservation District’s watershed specialist and agricultural technician, who has worked closely with the volunteer watershed stewards on numerous projects. “Conservation activities and education are needed, but the number of local professional staff in this field are small and time is limited.”

Now entering its sixth year, the Master Watershed Steward program is an initiative administered by the Penn State Extension, in conjunction with the Watershed Coalition of the Lehigh Valley and the conservation district. The program’s primary goal is to identify passionate volunteers interested in working to protect the region’s water resources while also inspiring other to rally to the cause.

Starting with 20 individuals in 2013, the program has grown to include more than 200 volunteers in a 12-county region in Eastern Pennsylvania covering Philadelphia north to Lackawanna County. Last year, 58 Lehigh Valley-based volunteers dedicated approximately 1,500 hours toward projects ranging from teaching students about stream ecology and planting riparian buffers, to leading public workshops for homeowners on rain barrel construction and the importance of storm water management.

Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Coordinator Erin Frederick said the stewards have worked closely with Bushkill, Lower Milford, Upper Saucon and Plainfield townships, as well as the borough of Pen Argyl, to help change the public’s perception of how to deal with rainfall runoff on public and private properties.

“They have accomplished this through working with municipal staff and the local community to build rain gardens on the township building properties,” Frederick said, “and by doing extensive outreach to the community to help residents understand how they can help at their own homes.

“Working closely with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the stewards [have also] carried out an extensive water testing program to determine which streams in the Lehigh Valley were impacted by bacteria. This allowed the DEP to flag those streams that had high bacteria levels as a concern for fishing and swimming, and set the region up for working on efforts to clean those streams.”

Starting March 7, the Penn State Extension will begin training its next class of watershed stewards, and Frederick said she’d like to add at 20-25 people to the roster, resulting in 80-plus volunteers working in the Lehigh Valley. The class, which will meet Wednesdays at 6 p.m., through May 30, will include presentations and workshops by university professors, environmental professionals and staff from local conservation organizations. When all is said and done, the stewards will have undergone 40 hours of training designed to provide them with the knowledge and skills they need to help protect the region’s water resources.

Among the presenters for 2018 are Al Giuseppe, a hydrogeologist with the environmental engineering firm Spotts, Stevens and McCoy; Dan Kunkle, executive director of the Slatington-based Lehigh Gap Nature Center, who will teach a session on terrestrial entomology; and Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center educators Lauren Forster and Rick Wiltraut, who will lead a wildlife class.

In addition to the classroom sessions, which will take place at different locations throughout the Lehigh Valley, the stewards will embark on three hands-on Saturday field trips. On April 20 Bethlehem Director of Sewer and Water Resources Ed Boscola will offer a tour of Bethlehem’s Waste Water Treatment Plant, while on May 19 Kunkle and his staff will lead a native plant identification hike, insect safari and visit to the aquatic lab at Lehigh Gap Nature Center.

Frederick said the watershed steward program is designed to do more than simply find volunteers to help with protecting the region’s water resources — it’s also focused on promoting lifelong learning and helping to forge new friendships.

“After the first 40 hours of training, there are numerous advanced training opportunities offered on a variety of topics, ranging from water quality monitoring to bog gardens,” Frederick says. “There are also several social opportunities that include potlucks, hikes and canoe trips. Ultimately, we want this volunteer program to be as fun and rewarding as possible.”

And, Pritchard noted, the efforts of the group certainly don’t go unnoticed.

“We have been able to reach hundreds if not thousands of additional people thanks to the work these folks do, and help keep our community watershed associations supplied with dedicated members,” he said. “They have also supported many demonstration projects such as public rain gardens, native plantings and riparian buffer establishment.”

“These high-quality, trained volunteers help to provide community engagement and project success that (simply) would otherwise be impossible.”

Find a bargain this Saturday

The Delaware River Shad Fishermen’s Association is holding a Fishing & Hunting Flea Market on Saturday at Se-Wy-Co Fire Company Social Hall, 3621 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bethlehem. The event, set for 8 a.m. -1 p.m., features new and used fishing and hunting gear, collectibles and more. Admission is $3 and free for kids 12 and under. For more info, call 610-691-8518.

Registration for the Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward program is now open. Registration cost, which helps to cover program materials and speaker fees, is $125; scholarships are also available to help those with financial need. To register or learn more, contact Frederick at 610-391-9840 or elf145@psu.edu.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/small-group-of-volunteers-having-big-impact-on-lehigh-valley39s-bwaterb-resources635842Esra ( water world news )Small group of volunteers having big impact on Lehigh Valley&#39;s <b>water</b> resources<b>Water</b> restored to Box Elder-area villages

To date, it's been the snowiest winter in Havre since records started being kept in 1880 and the city is on pace to break its all-time record for a full winter season.
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Deep snow surrounds a home in Box Elder, and icicles hang from the roof. “Lots of snow and brutally cold and that always affects our water system," said Harlan Baker, chairman of the Chippewa Cree Tribe,(Photo: Karl Puckett)

Water was restored over the weekend to more than 100 Box Elder homes that were without it for about a week because of cold weather that froze pipes.

"We’ve had a significant winter this year,” said Harlan Baker, chairman of the Chippewa Cree Tribe. “Lots of snow and brutally cold and that always affects our water system.”

Baker originally told the Tribune last Tuesday that a water main break was suspected in a loss of water pressure affecting about 200 homes in villages around Box Elder.

However, on Tuesday, Baker said it wasn’t a water main break that caused the loss of water pressure but actually frozen pipes at several homes. Crawl spaces filled up with water.

“So that kind of depleted our storage,” Baker said. “We got all of those taken care of, shut off, and pressure built up.”

Water was shut off to those locations until residents can repair the pipes, he said.

“The pressure started building,” Baker said.

About 120 homes were without water for about a week, prompting tribal officials to deliver water.

Ground was broken on the water treatment project in August, Baker said. And 22 miles of pipe have been installed so far to bring water to the reservation. Some 30 miles remain to be completed. Each year, additional appropriations are sought to continue with construction of the project, Baker said.

KARACHI: Sindh government has assured the Water Commission in an undertaking that after completion of modalities and import of required machinery and equipment, four sewage treatments plants will start functioning in different phases under the Greater Karachi Sewerage Plan (S-III).

Chief Secretary Rizwan Memon and Muhammad Waseem from Planning and Development Department have said that the government is ready to finance all these treatment plants.

In this connection, TP-III Mauripur of 54 million gallon of sewage water per day capacity will become functional by June 2018 as the contractor has agreed to import machinery and allied material.

TP-I Haroonabad with a capacity of 180 MGD will likely commence operations by December 2018.

Project Director Noor Muhammad has informed Daily Times that 3.5 kilometers pumping extension work on TP-II Mahmoodabad for discharging water into Malir River is likely to be completed by March 2019.

Ground work on new TP-IV Korangi Creek with a capacity of 360 MGD will likely be started soon after an international tender is floated.

The project director has said that the plants will be functional in three years.

Meanwhile, the commission has directed authorities concerned to submit weekly progress reports on the matter.

Explaining project plans, Noor Muhammad has said that 300 acres of land will be acquired for TP-IV from the Board of Revenue. Demarcation and other work will be started soon after the approval of the Board of Revenue.

Contractors working on Lyari River have been asked to complete remaining 20 percent conduit construction work by the end May 2018, he has said.

The conduit system will be connected with TP-III Mauripur.

The tender process for the construction of conduit system on Malir River will be completed by March 2018. The sewage water of this system will be treated at Korangi Creek Plant and after treatment it will be discharged into the Arabian Sea.

“It is the first instance of the federal and the Sindh government collaborating on a sewerage project. Hopefully, the project will soon be a reality with these efforts,” Noor says.

Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui, the federal secretary for Planning and Development, says that with the approval of minutes by the cabinet division, funds will be released for S-III project before the end of the financial year.

He assures that since it is a project of high importance, there will be no delays in the release of funds.

The Water Commission has also directed the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) to start work on its own on 60 MGD treatment plant. Land has already been reserved on Mai Kolachi Road for this purpose.

A spokesman of KPT says that the cost of the project will come at around Rs 1.5 billion to Rs 2 billion with an estimated completion period of two years.

The status of combined Effluents Treatment Plants estimating cost of Rs 11 billion in industrial areas of Karachi is also under consideration in order to discharge treated industrial water into sea.

Along with large quantities of solid waste and floating pollutants, Karachi’s coastlines have been receiving untreated sewage from Lyari and Malir rivers and various nullahs for decades. This has converted the coastal belt into a big cesspool and has caused problems for port operations, resulting in huge cost for required dredging operations.

Absence of water treatment facilities have also devastated the environmental along the coastline, resulting in loss of mangroves, fishery export and tourism.

Qamar Qureshi, the president of Economic Forum Pakistan, hopes that after the completion of the project, the city will finally have a clean coast, improved public health and hygienic conditions, all of which will lead to revamping of marine ecology.

A boil water notice has been issued for all residents in New
Plymouth, Bell Block, Waitara, Tikorangi, Onearo and
Urenui.

The water is OK to use to flush the toilet, but
should be boiled for one minute before being used for
drinking. Please use your emergency water supplies
first.

Water tankers are on stand-by.

Ex-Cyclone Gita
has caused a large tree to fall and destroyed a pipe bridge
that carries one of our biggest water pipes near the New
Plymouth Water Treatment Plant yesterday afternoon. This has
cut off water supply to the eastern part of the New Plymouth
District and will result in outages this afternoon.

Only
use water for drinking and flushing the toilet.

All big
water users have been asked to stop using water and small
businesses that use water – such as hairdressers and
coffee shops – should also close until the water supply is
restored.

There is a total ban on using water for gardens
or outside washing, level 4 water restrictions
apply.

We’re clearing the site of debris from trees and
have sourced a pipe that we’ll use in the repair.

For
more information check out NPDC’s facebook page, website
or call us on 06 759
6060.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/boil-bwaterb-notice-issued-by-npdc635845Esra ( water world news )Boil <b>water</b> notice issued by NPDCLetter: City shouldn&#39;t overspend on proposed <b>water</b> projects
To the editor:

Having been instrumental in co-inventing, designing and building the Krofta patented sandfloats which are used as the primary purification units in the city's two Krofta drinking water filtration plans and also having been the principal negotiator for the project in the mid-1980s, I consider it my moral obligation to the taxpayers and ratepayers of Pittsfield to comment on two upcoming projects with a combined cost of more than $165 million.

The city at present has a fully functional sewage treatment plant meeting interim standards established by both the state DEP and federal EPA. The existing plant needs a little additional help to meet a little bit tighter standards for aluminum and phosphorus as ordered by the DEP and EPA. There are many ways to meet these new standards, including changes in operating procedure and utilizing existing equipment at the sewage treatment plant.

The city's consulting engineers — and there are three different firms; why do we need so many? — are proposing to literally rebuild the entire plant with a cost of $83 million. I say that this is preposterous, and if this proposal flies an individual who pays $150 quarterly for water and sewer will be paying a $600 bill quarterly, for a total water and sewer bill of $2,400 a year.

My proposal is to beef up the biological and chemical processes already in existence at the plant. This will cost the city peanuts, and will slash the consultants' $83 million project cost by at least 50 percent and possibly more.

One may ask if such a savings is possible. The answer is yes. In the 1980s, we took a project proposed at $150 million down to $32 million. I am referring to the two Krofta plants we built for drinking water purification for the city.

We should use every aspect of the sewage plant because its hardware is already there and we need not spend a dime more than we need to. This is the one and only way for the city to go.

One more thing. The city's consultants are calling for $75 million in upgrades at the city's two water treatment plants. I co-designed and built these plants along with my partners Dr. Miles Krofta and Dr. Lawrence W. Wang. These plants meet every single requirement of the DEP and EPA drinking water standards. Why change anything? It would be insane to spend $75 million, and if we did, we would not get any higher standards then we get by doing nothing.

I have built five water filtration plants in the U.S. and saved municipalities hundreds of millions of dollars. The Croton water project had a projected cost of $7.2 billion but was built for $3.2 billion. The two lead engineering companies on that project were taught by Dr. Wang and me during their time as our students at the Lenox Institute of Research in the mid-'80s. I mention this project to show how much can be saved by using innovative technology.

Everyone should call their city councilors and ask them to do anything they can to drastically reduce the costs of these projects. The Council must not approve these preposterous and costly projects.

Craig C. Gaetani,

Pittsfield

The writer is former worldwide director of technical marketing for Krofta Engineering Corporation and Krofta Waters Inc.

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In November 2017, IAPMO’s Water Efficiency and Sanitation Standard (WE•Stand) was published as an American National Standard, replacing the Green Plumbing and Mechanical Code Supplement (the Green Supplement). The publication of WE•Stand is noteworthy, as it is the first ANSI standard that focuses solely on achieving safe and efficient water use in both non-residential and residential buildings.

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With its last version published in 2015, the Green Supplement is a separate document from the Uniform Plumbing and Mechanical Codes and establishes requirements for green building and water efficiency applicable to plumbing, mechanical, and solar energy (hydronic and photovoltaic) systems. The Green Supplement serves as an adjunct to the Uniform Codes or any of the plumbing and mechanical codes used in the United States.

The supplement is not a “greener” version of the Uniform Codes, but rather, the Green Supplement addresses green building plumbing issues in a number of ways, including:

Serves as a repository for provisions that ultimately will be integrated into the Uniform Codes. The Green Supplement is a transitional home for green requirements until they are fully accepted by industry and ready to be included into the code.

Serves as a resource for progressive jurisdictions that are implementing green building and water efficiency programs.

Is an enforcement aid for existing green ordinances.

Is a model for jurisdictions implementing green ordinances.

Serves as a resource for inspectors, plumbers, contractors, engineers, and manufacturers in designing, installing, and approving green plumbing and mechanical systems.

Coordinates and resolves conflicts among other green building and water efficiency program requirements.

What Is Addressed In We•Stand

The recent publication of WE•Stand is a result of the work of the WE•Stand Technical Committee comprised of 29 industry experts. The provisions contained in the standard reflect the collective experience and knowledge of the committee.

With representation from code officials, manufacturers, plumbing engineers, contractors, the plumbing trades, water efficiency proponents, water utilities, landscape irrigation experts, representatives of other associations, and academia, the contents reflects the latest comprehensive provisions aimed at achieving safe and reliable water efficiencies in and around buildings.

Here is an overview of the provisions contained in the inaugural edition of WE•Stand.

A significant item in WE•Stand is its Water Demand Calculator, an alternative to the industry’s Hunter’s Curve when estimating water supply demand for residential buildings (applicable to single- and multi-family settings). This achievement represents the first practical application of an improved method since the 1940s that does not result in excessive over design and oversizing pipes. The new Water Demand Calculator estimates the supply demand for the whole building, as well as cold and hot water branches and risers for indoor water use based on today’s plumbing fixtures and appliances and usage patterns. The Water Demand Calculator works in conjunction with any commonly accepted rules and procedures for sizing the water supply system.

Use of the calculator in plumbing design aims to: improve scouring action in water pipes, inhibit biofilm growth, reduce water dwell times in premise plumbing systems, improve water quality, speed hot water delivery throughout the plumbing system, and reduce construction costs. It is now available for use with any baseline plumbing code.

Additionally, the following aspects of plumbing systems are addressed.

Provisions for codification and safe use of composting toilets. WE•Stand contains the first set of comprehensive codified requirements for installation, safe use, and maintenance of composting and urine diversion toilet fixtures applicable to commercial and residential applications.

Certain material in this article is reprinted from http://www.iapmo.org/WEStand/ with the permission of the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials. This material and all points or statements using this material have not been reviewed by IAPMO. The opinions expressed herein are not representations of fact from IAPMO.

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Challenges with water and sewer in Maysville have been an ongoing battle – but a bit of relief is coming soon.

Through a USDA loan and grant, Maysville has been awarded money to help ease the burden of their wastewater treatment plant, which overflows and backs up when there’s a substantial rain event.

But that’s far from the only issue facing water and sewer in Maysville, said Town Manager Schumata Brown. For years the town’s residents have paid little for water and sewer and the town has made up for the lost in costs with money from the general fund.

While there was a 20 percent increase in monthly cost during last year’s budget, Brown said another raise is likely to come.

Bugs remove waste naturally

Walking among cement holes filled with water next to the town cemetery, Brown pointed at the rows of basins and talked about the hard-to-see bugs that live within. Like a natural river ecosystem, bugs eat the waste in the water before the next step takes over. It’s a more natural process than adding chemicals, Brown said.

“This is where the bugs eat . . . all the fecal matter,” said Maysville Public Works Employee Leslie Boomer.

It’s the science of the system, including balancing the number of needed bugs, which called Boomer to this profession. He’s now in the process of becoming a waste water treatment operator.

Walking toward a large metal box, Brown showcased what he called a “grit chamber” which had waste being filtered from the water. However, there are times when the chamber, which doesn’t work as it should, doesn’t catch everything and Maysville’s public works employees have to scoop out the unfiltered waste themselves.

The ‘chaos’ of heavy rain

It’s pure “chaos” at the treatment center when the rain comes down heavy, Boomer said.

The basins overflow and it’s more difficult for the system to catch all of the waste before it reaches open water, Boomer said.

“When it rains, you just get crazy water, so much flow it’s intolerable,” Boomer said.

When there is an overflow, the system has to be shut down to allow everything to settle, Boomer explained. This kills the bugs inside and sets off the whole system.

“There’s a greater chance of solids getting out to the stream,” Boomer said.

While there isn’t a chance for those solids to make it into the more than 460 homes serviced by the town – the water at the treatment center is coming from the town residents – more waste gets into the river, which can be dangerous for the plants and wildlife, Boomer said.

That’s why the town has loaned $567,000 and been given a grant for $357,000 from USDA to purchase equalization basins, Brown said. These basins will allow the town to hold back some water in the cases of an overflow situation and allow the system to do its job before releasing the excess water into the system.

‘Struggling’ with water and sewer finances

The entire project for improving the system will cost a total of about $1.1 million, Brown said. Construction for the project will begin in May or June of this year and the town was given an end date of late fall 2019 to complete the upgrades, Brown said.

One of the reasons the town is so excited for this money is they were denied a grant request last year, Brown said.

“In the past, we have been struggling with our water sewer finances,” he said.

There’s a state-mandated threshold for water rates required from residents in a town or city, and Maysville didn’t meet it. The N.C. Water and Wastewater Rates Dashboard with the UNC Environmental Finance Center lists a $39.90 bill for water and sewer in Maysville for a household using 1,000 gallons of water in a month.

The U.S. School of Government assessed the town’s water and sewer rates and total costs last year, Brown said, and determined Maysville needed to raise the fees for water and sewer by 70 percent just to break even.

Brown said he just couldn’t recommend the Board of Commissioners to do that to the town, so they instead raised the rates to $25.20 plus $5.70 per 1,000 gallons of water used, which was about 20 percent higher than where they’d been.

About seven years ago, Brown said a former town manager suggested a raise and the community balked so much at the rates being raised to $25; the BOC reduced the rates again.

Because of these lower rates the town used $15,153 from the general fund in Fiscal Year 2015-16 and $69,083 in Fiscal Year 2016-2017 to supplement the needed excess funds for water and sewer.

What Brown can’t help but think of, he said, is what they money could have gone toward instead.

Raising the rates

Brown plans to do another rate study this year to determine what the water and sewer fees need to be for the town to break even.

“We don’t want to overdo it; we don’t want to underdo it. We want to make it right for the citizens,” Brown said.

Maysville should be running their water and sewer facility like a business, Brown said. Some have come to Brown and said water should be free – and he encouraged them to grab a bucket and get their water from the river if they so desire.

You’re paying for a provided service, he explained, and he doesn’t feel it’s so bad paying for the need. You’d die without water after six days, and he personally would rather turn off the lights and live without electricity than live in a house where he couldn’t fill up a glass with tap water when he needed to.

It may come down to Maysville joining onto another system, like Jones County’s, Brown said. The systems are doing the same thing, but it’s different when a town is running it. Like with the former BOC who under pressure from the community reduced rates, it’s tricky having elected officials in charge of water and sewer.

Politicians know they could be voted out of office if they make choices different than what the citizens want, Brown said, which is why water authority companies seem to be the better route. With them, they can make tough calls without fear of fewer votes.

Reporter Amanda Thames can be reached at 910-219-8467 or Amanda.Thames@JDNews.com

The City of Peterborough is asking residents to reduce water consumption because of ongoing rainfall and increased snow melt.

A significantly increased volume of water is entering the city’s wastewater treatment plant. As a result of the current conditions, the plant is now in secondary by-pass mode.

Secondary by-pass mode means that all of sewage will be screened and will receive primary treatment and UV disinfection, but will not receive secondary polishing treatment.

To help alleviate the volume of water flowing through the plant, the city is asking residents to reduce their water consumption by taking short showers instead of baths, limiting or delaying loads of laundry, and turning off taps while brushing teeth and doing dishes.

The city is also advising residents downstream of Peterborough who draw their water from the river to take necessary precautions and boil water.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/city-of-peterborough-asks-residents-to-reduce-bwaterb-consumption635848Esra ( water world news )https://kawarthanow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/wastewater-treatment-plant-696x464.jpgCity of Peterborough asks residents to reduce <b>water</b> consumptionPeterborough <b>water treatment</b> plant on secondary bypass after heavy rainfallPeople who draw water from the Otonabee River south of Peterborough's Wastewater Treatment Plant are under a boil water warning after the plant was placed on secondary bypass mode because of heavy rainfall and snowmelt this week.

Secondary bypass means that all of the sewage entering the Kennedy Rd. plant will be screened, and will receive primary treatment and UV disinfection, but will not receive secondary polishing treatment before entering the river.

As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, about 32 millimetres of water has fallen in Peterborough since noon on Monday, according to Environment Canada. The Peterborough area is under a rainfall warning from Environment Canada and a water safety advisory from Otonabee Conservation and other conservation authorities in the area.

The city is also asking residents to reduce water consumption to help alleviate the volume of water flowing through the city’s wastewater treatment plant.

Residents can reduce their water consumption by taking short showers instead of baths, limiting or delaying loads of laundry, and turning off taps while brushing teeth and doing dishes, wastewater treatment supervisor Daryl Stevenson stated.

To help prevent basement flooding, residents should check that ice and snow is cleared from eaves troughs and downspouts, and ensure that groundwater is diverted away from building foundations, Stevenson states.

Wet ground and fast flowing water also pose dangerous conditions, the city warns, and people are being urged to stay well back of the shorelines of area lakes, rivers and streams, and remain away from dam structures and piers..

WEST ALEXANDRIA — The Village of West Alexandria is working on changing the speed limit on Ohio 503 from 50 to 35 miles per hour on the north side of town, out to the city limits.

During a council meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 13, a concerned citizen appealed to council for this change.

She said, “We live in city limits and we have a 50 mph limit in front of our house that people go 60 and 70 mph in. I’m sure that the police officers can vouch for that, I’m sure you have caught people. I have grandchildren that play in our driveway and I’ve had people drag race down that hill and just about lose control. Sometimes pulling out is frightening. We’re in the village and we’re 50 mph.”

“It goes from 45 mph to New Lexington then to 50 mph and then to 35 mph in the school zone. Then if you’re going outside the town it says in school zone 50mph. So a bunch of people get on the gas and fly down that hill. Somebody is going to get hurt, it is a safety thing. The east, west, and south side all has 35mph right at the city limit sign and we are just asking for the same thing.

“I’ve talked to the Sstate and they said that they could make a recommendation, but that it was really up to the village. Only the village could make the decision, because we are in the city limits. They said if we were not in the city limits it would be up to them.”

Mayor Carol Lunsford noted, “I did talk to them today. She confirmed that and had 45 mph, but I told her that would not help at all.”

She added, the corporation limit signs are wrong, but when the State of Ohio comes to put the new speed limit signs up they will fix that as well. Lunsford recommended that instead of 45 mph, they change the limit to 35 mph. Council voted to allow the solicitor to draft a resolution for the change. Once that is in place, ODOT can proceed with replacing the signs and making the change official.

Council also voted to approve three related resolutions necessary to begin a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) project. They were all declared an emergency and the three reading requirement was waive, with Mayor Lunsford explaining the village is on a time restraint put onto them by Ohio and the resolutions are truly emergencies.

The first resolution was for Kurtis Strickland from the Ohio Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) to submit a USDA Rural Development application by the new “RD Apply Online” application system for the Waste Water Treatment Plant project.

The second WWTP resolution was to authorize the mayor to apply, accept, and enter into an Ohio EPA Water Pollution Control Loan Fund (WPCLF) agreement on behalf of the village for construction of a Waste Water Treatment Plant Replacement project, designating a dedicated repayment source and declaring an emergency.

The third and final WWTP resolution was to authorize the mayor to apply in the RCAP to submit the electronic application for CDBG Residential Public Infrastructure program funding to the Ohio Development Services Agency for the WWTP project and declaring an emergency.

In other business:

•A new eyeglass store named Pride Optical has come to West Alexandria, and is located on the north side of U.S. 35.

•Bratt Tasties has officially reopened.

•Council accepted a second reading modifying the compensation for certain village employees.

The next West Alexandria Village Council meeting was scheduled for Monday, Feb. 19 .

Reach Kelsey Kimbler at 937-683-4061 or on Twitter @KKimbler_RH

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/wa-to-change-speed-limit-on-ohio-503635549Esra ( water world news )WA to change speed limit on Ohio 503Forecast calls for major flood on Illinois River

Ottawa Building Commissioner Mike Sutfin, an expert on flooding, warns local residents to prepare for high waters.

“We’re about to get a major flood,” he told The Times about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The National Weather Service has reported the water inflows are very similar to the flood conditions of 2013, with some variables still to be determined, such as the ground conditions, he said.

The city of Marseilles enacted its voluntary evacuation for the areas south of the Illinois & Michigan Canal and east of Main Street, which includes Mill Street. Officials will continue to monitor the situation.

The La Salle County Nursing Home evacuated residents Tuesday night, and three school districts canceled classes for Wednesday: Ottawa High, Ottawa Elementary and Marseilles Elementary.

Green Street and Chicago Road and Champlain and Superior streets in Ottawa were closed Tuesday.

The water inflow is triple its usual rate and is predicted to peak just after midnight Wednesday more than 8 feet above flood stage.

Sutfin recommended residents with property susceptible to flooding act now to move valuables to higher levels and out of danger.

“If your basement gets flooded, don’t go down there until the power is off,” he cautioned.

Sutfin cautioned drivers about going through standing water in roads.

“The old saying is turn around, don’t drown,” he said. "You don’t know what’s in that water. There could be a sewer cap open and if your little car hits it you’ll be in big trouble. Or the water could be much deeper than you think and your car gets carried away and someone dies.”

Meanwhile, many locations expecting floodwaters have closed.

The Starved Rock Visitor Center parking lot by the river was closed Tuesday and will be closed Wednesday due to flooding. Visitors should use the south entrance off of Route 71. The lodge and park still are open. Weekend parking and trail conditions will be updated Thursday, according to a press statement by Starved Rock officials.

Due to the rising river elevation, Dee Bennett Road closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday from Route 178 to Koenig Road near the La Salle County Nursing Home.

Ottawa High School postponed its basketball game with Streator on Tuesday due to the closure of roads around the school. The game was rescheduled for Wednesday in Streator.

Ottawa sewer plant safe from floodingDuring past floods, citizens have been called out to sandbag Ottawa’s water treatment plant to prevent in from being breached by the Illinois River.That is unlikely to happen this year now.

Last year, a $1.5 million concrete wall was finished that tops off about 4 feet high than the projected crest of a 100-year flood, providing critical protection of the sewage plant, which is located alongside the south bank of the Illinois River.

Streator watches over flood levels

City of Streator officials are keeping their eyes on water levels but aren't expecting too much of an issue as of Tuesday afternoon.

"It sounds like we're going to crest right at flood stage so there shouldn't be any major issues," said city engineer Jeremy Palm.

Marilla Park was closed as around a foot or two of water rests in the park after heavy rains. Once the water recedes the park will be cleaned and reopened.

Additionally, Palm said there are a couple of spots in town where water comes off farm fields and through neighborhoods that officials are keeping an eye on.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/waste-bwater-treatmentb-operator635552Esra ( water world news )Waste <b>Water Treatment</b> OperatorNJ lawmaker says troubled Trenton <b>water</b> utility must do betterA Democratic state lawmaker whose constituents are served by Trenton Water Works is proposing changes in N.J. public waters systems amid ongoing scrutiny of the city's troubled utility.

Assemblyman Wayne P. DeAngelo introduced three bills last week that he said would improve communication about boil-water notices and other emergencies, while expanding the applicant pool for water treatment systems operators.

In an interview, DeAngelo said he was prompted by longstanding concerns with Trenton Water Works, from concerns about water quality and public notifications to inadequate staffing.

His 14th District includes Hamilton, one of the four municipalities in addition to Trenton served by the 159-year-old utility.

"I'm just trying to bring everything up to level," said DeAngelo, who chairs the Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee.

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In response, a spokesman for Trenton referenced recent steps taken by the city, including an administrative consent order reached two weeks ago by Mayor Eric Jackson with the state Department of Environmental Protection.

"We are doing what he set out to do, which was to bring in a contractor to help us run the water filtration plant," city spokesman Michael Walker said.

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Fresh water supplies continue to be assaulted on multiple fronts. Front page news at the moment is the unfolding disaster in Cape Town, South Africa which could be completely without water by June. According to some, this is as much the result of politics as it is the result of a three-year drought.

At the same time, clearly man-made disasters like the corporate hoarding of fresh water is on the rise. At the heart of this initiative to make water a commodity has been Nestle, whose former CEO clearly stated that water supplies should be privatized and that the right to fresh, clean water is not an essential human right. One look at how this is manifesting in Mexico at the moment should make it clear who gets most severely penalized for this policy.

Moreover, it is estimated that nearly 1/3 of the planet’s population is directly threatened by unclean water. Finding a solution to this ongoing plague should be of paramount importance; it is for this reason that I have repeatedly focused on novel new ways that we can take back control over our water supply and ensure that it is as clean as possible (see here and here).

A new filtering technique might just hold the largest promise yet for being able to access even large bodies of water across the planet that have become terribly polluted. Australia’s Syndney Harbour is one such place. Comprising more than 10,000 acres at depths of up to 35 feet, the Harbour is so polluted that scientists saw it as the perfect challenge to test their research.

The system that scientists at CSIRO have created is called Graphair, named after the microscopic graphene film that developers say will stop pollutants completely in a single step, as opposed to the multi-stage process of most commercial filters. It even holds the promise for “treatment of seawater and industrial effluents.” In addition to being simpler and faster, it is also environmentally sound as it consists of renewable soybean oil.

Researchers further describe the significance of this promising new application:

The breakthrough potentially solves one of the great problems with current water filtering methods: fouling.

Over time chemical and oil based pollutants coat and impede water filters, meaning contaminants have to be removed before filtering can begin. Tests showed Graphair continued to work even when coated with pollutants.

Without Graphair, the membrane’s filtration rate halved in 72 hours.

When the Graphair was added, the membrane filtered even more contaminants (99 per cent removal) faster.

“This technology can create clean drinking water, regardless of how dirty it is, in a single step,” Dr Seo said.

“All that’s needed is heat, our graphene, a membrane filter and a small water pump. We’re hoping to commence field trials in a developing world community next year.”

Similar to other developments that I’ve covered, scaling up the technology remains a final barrier for distribution to the masses in desperate need of access to clean water. CSIRO is seeking industry partners. Let’s hope that their endeavor is successful, as they state that this system ultimately could be used for home filtration all the way to being integrated into city systems.

Have you come across other solutions to solve water shortages and purification? Please leave your information in the comment section below.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/tiny-graphene-membrane-creates-quotsupercharged-bwater-purificationbquot-in-one-simple-step635232Esra ( water world news )Tiny Graphene Membrane Creates &quot;Supercharged <b>Water Purification</b>&quot; In One Simple StepPentair picks Apex for new $11.3M labhttp://waterworldnews.net/pentair-picks-apex-for-new-113m-lab635233Esra ( water world news )Pentair picks Apex for new $11.3M labWHO and the health cluster support the response to the suspected food poisoning in Bor South ...Juba, 19 February 2018 – Following an alert of suspected food poisoning on 18 February 2018, where one community death and an influx of over 400 patients were admitted at Bor State Hospital, and several others in private facilities within Bor town, WHO and the health cluster quickly mounted a response to support the Ministry of Health to treat those who were admitted.

Patients presented mainly with diarrhea, vomiting, fever, general body weakness and headache after attending and eating food at a building inaugural ceremony. Many patients are admitted in Bor Hospital for treatment and are being given fluids, antibiotics and other supportive treatment. Due to huge number of patients admitted over a span of three hours, Bor State Hospital was overwhelmed and had run out of essential supplies like fluids (Ringers Lactate) and antibiotics.

As part of the immediate response, Health Link South Sudan in Bor delivered 300 liters of Ringers Lactate and gloves. The needed supplies were delivered to the facilities on Sunday at around mid-night with logistical and security support from WHO, OCHA and the Quick Response Force (QRF) of UNMISS.

To mitigate the shortage of supplies due to the magnitude of the patients, WHO and Health Cluster at national level chartered a flight and delivered 1.5 tons of infusion kits, antibiotics, infection prevention and control and sample collection materials including dispensary tent, chlorination kits for disinfection and water treatment kits from Juba on 19 February 2018. The supplies reached the facilities within 8 hours of notification of the event.

To improve the quality and speed of the response WHO deployed five technical staff to support the health partners in Bor and the State Ministry of Health. The team are providing 24-hour triage and clinical care, infection prevention and control, risk communication as well as surveillance and investigation for the source of the transmission and associated risk factors.

Thanks to South Sudan Humanitarian Fund, United States Aid for International Development and European Union Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), WHO and health cluster partners were able to swiftly respond to the event. WHO will continue to monitor the situation and provide additional support as required including sending samples to international reference laboratories for further testing, Mr Evans Liyosi WHO Representative a.i. for South Sudan underscored.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/who-and-the-health-cluster-support-the-response-to-the-suspected-food-poisoning-in-bor-south635557Esra ( water world news )WHO and the health cluster support the response to the suspected food poisoning in Bor South ...State v. 3M trial halts before it beginsAn announcement was planned for 3:30 p.m.

Jury selection was set to begin Feb. 20 in a Hennepin County courtroom, with opening statements to follow.

State Attorney General Lori Swanson filed the complaint just before year end in 2010.

Beginning in the 1950s, 3M began dumping perfluorochemicals in Cottage Grove, Woodbury, Oakdale and Lake Elmo. The company has stated that at the time they did not know the chemicals were harmful.

The PFCs migrated from the unlined dumping pits across a 100-square-mile plume in the east metro and into groundwater and Mississippi River.

Swanson claims in the complaint that by the 1960s, 3M knew dumping PFCs would be harmful for health and pollute the area, as well as claiming the company covered up the fact that they knew and did nothing about it.

The state is seeking $5 billion in damages from 3M for dumping the PFCs that have leached into the groundwater across the east metro, making it the state's largest-ever environmental lawsuit.

Health fears

The reduction of health-based values last May renewed fears in the east metro area that 3M's chemicals may have caused higher instances of cancer and other adverse health effects.

The Environmental Protection Agency's health-based values state that PFC levels should be below 70 parts per trillion to be safe. In May 2017, the Minnesota Department of Health lowered their own health-based values to 35 ppt PFOA and 27 ppt for PFOS.

When the decrease triggered a watering ban and the city had to increase water filtration, many residents worried their health had been at risk of cancer or other health issues when the values were higher.

New court documents filed in November renewed fears once again.

The documents included a study from Swanson's expert witness, David Sunding of University of California-Berkeley, which points to a higher incidence of infertility in women and lower birth weights in Oakdale. After the city switched to non-contaminated water in 2006, low birth rates declined, according to Sunding's study.

Earlier this month, the Minnesota Department of Health completed an analysis of cancer as well as low birth weight and premature birth rates in the east metro. The MDH found that rates were not outside the norm for the area.

3M requested and was granted a one-week delay in the trial based on the new analysis.

Other studies in the past have found that PFC exposure may increase the risk of thyroid disease, lowered immune responses, liver and kidney function and testicular cancer.

The suit does not focus solely on health, however, but Swanson also argues that 3M's dumping negatively impacted the environment, documents related to PFCs were destroyed to keep cover up information and that keeping facts from the scientific community kept important studies on PFC effects from being completed earlier.

Cost and damages

3M has already paid millions for pollution remediation, including $5 million for a treatment plant in Oakdale in 2005, along with ongoing costs of operation there.

Cottage Grove, after the health-based values were lowered by the MDH, also needs a water treatment facility. Early estimates were about $10 million, but the price is now upward of $50 million to buy land for and construct two water treatment plants.

The company is fighting against paying for treatment facilities because 3M says there is a chance the pollution was from where firefighting foam may have left traces of PFC contamination near Highway 61.

The city is also set to be reimbursed for the $2 million spent on the temporary filtration systems constructed on two wells last summer.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has agreed to reimburse the city for remediation and filtration measures, whether or not 3M is reimbursing the state.

They signed a consent order to do so in 2007.

Cottage Grove Mayor Myron Bailey has said in the past that if the state wins he hopes some of the $5 billion at stake in the lawsuit will come to his city for water treatment costs.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/state-v-3m-trial-halts-before-it-begins635558Esra ( water world news )State v. 3M trial halts before it beginsBourns College of Engineering&#39;s Interim Dean Awarded Fulbright GrantInterim Dean Sharon Walker will continue her research into desalination and water treatment at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — The interim dean of the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded a 2018-19 Fulbright grant to continue research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel.

Sharon Walker, who also serves as John Babbage Chair in Environmental Engineering and as a professor of chemical and environmental engineering, will use the grant to further her research into water treatment and desalination, as well as continue to build a fruitful relationship between UC Riverside and Ben-Gurion University.

Walker was previously awarded a Fulbright scholarship for 2009-10, which marked the start of her collaborative efforts with Ben-Gurion University. Her newest award will serve as an extension of those efforts and see her continue working with researchers at Ben-Gurion’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research. In particular, she will be collaborating with Moshe Herzberg, an associate professor in the Department of Desalination and Water Treatment.

Depleting water supplies have become a major concern globally, and water treatment efforts continue to grow more critical as drought persists in nations across the world. Water conservation has become crucial in places such as Cape Town, South Africa, which officials estimate could run out of water completely by April 12, a date that has been dubbed “Day Zero.”

The effects of diminishing water sources have also been felt locally, with Riverside witnessing the effects of long-term drought firsthand. The city’s primary water sources — the Colorado River and the Sierra Nevada snowpack — have seen significant decreases in the last few years, said Walker.

“The average spring snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, California’s largest surface water storage, has decreased by about 10 percent,” she noted in her Fulbright proposal. She added water conservation efforts “come none too soon” as the 2015 measurements of Lake Mead — the reservoir for the Colorado River — was found to be at its lowest level since it was built in the 1930s.

Ben-Gurion University, located in Israel’s Negev Desert, is an optimal location for Walker’s continued research as the region’s average annual rainfall of 20 centimeters is comparable to the 26 centimeters received annually in the semi-arid region Riverside occupies. No stranger to their own water conservation needs, Israel has managed to achieve the highest rate of water reclamation in the world, with about 40 percent of its supply coming from reclaimed sources. Walker hopes to expand collaborative efforts with Ben-Gurion University to further both institutions’ expertise in sustainable approaches to water treatment and management.

Walker’s stay at Ben-Gurion University will also afford her the opportunity to collaborate with faculty with expertise in complex biofilms and membrane separation applications. She will work with Herzberg to test cleaning strategies that have been identified in her lab at UCR, allowing for validation of her group’s initial work. Her research focuses on membrane cleaning — specifically, developing more effective means of managing biofilm growth on the synthetic membranes used in water-treatment processes.

Biofilms consist of a mixture of organic molecules exuded by bacteria that can adhere to the surface of synthetic membranes and cause degradation in water quality and water-treatment efficiency.

“Biofilms essentially clog the pores of the membranes,” Walker said. “This leads to the treatment requiring greater amounts of energy consumption, and over time, the membranes become unusable. The ultimate goal of this project is to develop a transformative, scientifically informed, biofilm management strategy.”

Walker’s research aims to isolate individual components of biofilms to identify how various cleaning agents can alter or degrade each component in an effort to design more efficient cleaning strategies for effected membranes.

“Water is a crucial resource for all of humanity,” she said. “Developing robust technologies to ensure that we can have potable water sources is essential for the well-being of all. For nations such as Israel and the U.S., the ability to desalinate water … is paramount for ensuring water for its citizens and its agricultural production.”

The Fulbright Program is the leading international education exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries. The program, which awards approximately 8,000 new grants annually, was established in 1946 under legislation by Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. It operates in more than 150 countries.

Low-income, rural areas are the most vulnerable to drinking water quality violations that could affect people’s health, according to a new nationwide study.

Maura Allaire is the lead author of the study, and an assistant professor of urban policy and public planning at the University of California-Irvine. She says the Flint water crisis inspired her to do this work.

“I was living in Lansing, Michigan at the time that the Flint water crisis really broke into the national spotlight,” she says. “And so like many Michigan residents, I became curious — how widespread are these water quality issues across the country?' So I dug into the data.”

After assessing more than 30 years of records on drinking water quality violations, Allaire found violations extended well beyond Flint. For example, in 2015, she found 21 million people received water from systems that had violations of health-based standards. Those violations were for problems with things like E. coli contamination, arsenic, and lead, among other issues.

“I do want to caution that the U.S. does have some of the best drinking water quality in the world,” Allaire says. “This survey was really targeted at which communities are really struggling, and how can we bring everyone up to meet national drinking water quality standards?”

The agency will host a public meeting March 1 about a proposed wastewater discharge from the Huber Heights drinking water treatment plant. The permit would allow the city to discharge up to 1.3 million gallons per day of filtered reject water to the Great Miami River.

Feb 19, 2018

Ohio EPA announced it will host a public meeting on March 1 about a proposed wastewater discharge from the Huber Heights drinking water treatment plant.
The meeting will be held at the Huber Heights Police Department Community Meeting Room, 6121 Taylorsville Road. An information session begins at 6 p.m. with a hearing immediately following, during which the public can submit comments about the application for the discharge permit.

The city has applied for a permit to discharge wastewater from a new softening system at the Rip Rap Road water plant. If approved, the permit would allow the city to discharge up to 1.3 million gallons per day of filtered reject water from the process. The reject water would have higher concentrations of dissolved solids, such as minerals and salts, that are naturally present in groundwater, the state agency reported.

Its announcement said the proposed project may result in a change from current water quality conditions but cannot violate Ohio's water quality standards that protect human health and the environment, and that Ohio EPA will consider technical, economic, social and environmental aspects of the project before deciding whether to issue or deny the permit. The water treatment plant would discharge the water to the Great Miami River, which is a tributary of the Ohio River.

Ohio EPA will accept written comments on the permit application through March 8. Anyone may submit comments or request to be on the mailing list for information. To comment or receive information on the permit application, write to: Ohio EPA-DSW, Permits Processing Unit, P.O. Box 1049, Columbus, Ohio 43216-1049 or email epa.dswcomments@epa.ohio.gov.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/ohio-epa-considering-discharge-permit-for-huber-heights-bwaterb-plant635559Esra ( water world news )Ohio EPA Considering Discharge Permit for Huber Heights <b>Water</b> Plant<b>Water Treatment</b> Chemicals in Soft Drinks Market Segmentation and Analysis by Recent Trends ...The Global Water Treatment Chemicals in Soft Drinks Market research covers each aspect of the market highlighting various segments of the Water Treatment Chemicals in Soft Drinks market, market dynamics, market risk factors, market opportunities and challenges. Every segment’s prime end-use applications and the geographical distribution of the global market are also discussed at extend in this report. It identifies major important questions and points, categorizing information that will simplify the knowledge of the investor.

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Conservatives are gearing up for a unity celebration party, where United Conservative Party (UCP) leader Jason Kenney will be the featured guest.

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“As a hair salon, water is an essential part of our business operation, however, as part of the Western Cape community, we believe it’s our responsibility to act ethically toward the environment and ensure continued water supply while keeping the economy functioning,” said Byron Mayer, Managing Director of Carlton Hair SA.

Their water-saving campaign aims to offer their clients a more sustainable solution going forward. The plan has 5 components, dictating how water is used at the shampoo area, on the mineral water treatment, in the laundry area, in the cleaning process, and finally the drinking water served to clients. All in all, their aim is to save around 282 112 liters each month.

How is this being done?

The salon explained that the first step of the salon process is the shampoo area. The 4-step process of shampoo, condition, repeat was reduced to a 1-step process, meaning that they only shampoo once. The shampoo is applied to dry hair (instead of rinsing first) and slowly adding water to lather the hair. This intensifies the cleansing, resulting in cleaner hair. When rinsing, both the cold and hot water is used in order to avoid waste – this is a good tip for those who wash their hair at home. In addition, the process includes the use of a leave-in conditioner, thereby saving more water.

Washing and hair treatments

All Carlton Hair salons in the Western Cape are currently using the Water Saving Jug at the basin, instead of running taps. 1 liter is used on fine hair, and up to 3 liters on thick hair. By implementing these measures, the salons have been able to save at least 2 liters of water per client, adding up to 205 546 liters every month.

Drying and cleaning

Moreover, the salons have introduced an in-salon mineral water treatment as an alternative to their existing treatment offering, and made the decision to discontinue their perm treatment until the Western Cape comes out of the drought. They are also making us of easydry™ disposable towels, which is made from the bark of eucalyptus trees and contain no man-made fibers. By using these, they were able to stop washing towels and consequently saved 61 892 liters of water a month.

Lastly, instead of using a mop to clean, they are now mopping their floors by using a spray bottle, the process which saves an average of 7 200 liters per month. All of the staff have been prepped on the new protocol, and everyone is expected to comply to these standards. They also encourage their clients to make use of dry shampoo, leave-in conditioner and re-plumping fillers in order to keep hair looking cleaner for longer. Click here to find these online.

If more businesses would be willing to do their part to save water, Day Zero can be pushed back further in order to keep water available to the public. As water is a major element in our daily lives, it is so important to stay hydrated at all times – even in a drought. Click here to find out how much water you should drink daily.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/what-can-hair-salons-do-to-save-bwaterb-in-cape-town635244Esra ( water world news )What Can Hair Salons Do To Save <b>Water</b> In Cape Town?Paramount Well Service Specializes in Residential <b>Water</b> Well RepairsThis press release was orginally distributed by SBWire

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/paramount-well-service-specializes-in-residential-bwaterb-well-repairs635245Esra ( water world news )Paramount Well Service Specializes in Residential <b>Water</b> Well RepairsDevelopers withdraw downtown Stanwood septage projectMcDay Holdings LLC formally withdrew on Feb. 13 their application to build a septage treatment in the city of Stanwood after it was in limbo for months.

In October 2016, when Camano Island residents Greg Gilday and James McCafferty originally applied, they thought their McDay facility would be up and running in 6-12 months. But when residents caught wind of the plan, they brought a long list of concerns that put on the brakes — citing smell, noise, traffic and flooding.

This led to many public discussions and to the city considering an Environmental Impact Study and asking for more information from McDay.

According to previous SC News stories, the facility was proposed for the corner of 270th Street NW and Florence Road (84th Avenue), immediately east of Rite Aid and south of Funderburke Auto Body,

one of the few properties in Stanwood city limits zoned for general industrial use. Their plan was to accept trucks hauling human waste from septic tanks, pump it into a holding tank for 24-hour treatment, then haul bio-solids to market and pump wastewater to the city’s treatment plant.

Gilday and McCafferty addressed the public on Dec. 5, 2016, in a guest editorial in the SC News, saying they had the same concerns; this is the town they call home, too. They had researched these issues for three years.

They needed an industrial-zoned site with access to water treatment facilities. Their plan placed equipment two feet above the pending flood level as required by FEMA. The building and tanks would be stabilized on deep pilings. High-grade pipes would have break points and shut off valves. As for odor, it would be a small operation and a closed system.

Trucks would not go through the main part of town and the project would bring improvements to the city’s roads and sewer system. They would hire up to three employees and would produce high-grade fertilizer.

Citizens united as Stanwood Stewards, spearheaded by Cathy Wooten, to protest the septage facility.

“We had such overwhelming response from the community. Well over 600 people responded to emails and Facebook and more than 400 signed the petition,” Wooten said.

Stanwood Stewards spoke at planning and council meetings and public hearings. They cited a class action lawsuit over a septage facility in Pacific, Washington, that reinforced their concerns.

Council minutes show that Stanwood City Council passed an ordinance on July 27, 2017, prohibiting a septage facility in the city. However McDay could proceed, because the action wasn’t retroactive. Since July, Stanwood Stewards waited and wondered what would happen. Now they have an answer. McDay has withdrawn.

“How grateful we are that the applicants reconsidered. They weren’t aware of the problems other communities were having,” Wooten said. “We want to express our appreciation that once the potential for damage came to light that they chose to withdraw their application and protect our community.”

IMAGE: The globally-used anxiety drug Diazepam can now be removed from recycled water and wastewater, using low-cost titanium dioxide nanofibers, says Prof Vinod Gupta from the University of Johannesburg.
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A low-cost, efficient one-step method to remove the anxiety drug Diazepam from recycled water and wastewater, using titanium dioxide nanofibers has been developed by researchers headed by University of Johannesburg's Prof Vinod Kumar Gupta. Diazepam is used world-wide. It is a member of the benzodiapezine drug group.

Prescription drugs like Diazepam tend to slip through traditional wastewater treatment plants. These plants are not designed to remove the thousands of different pharmaceuticals in use globally. As drug use increases, legal and illegal pharmaceuticals enter the environment through treated sewage and wastewater discharged from drug manufacturing.

"Existing processes that can remove Diazepam and other drugs at large scale from wastewater are expensive, time consuming, inefficient, or all three. Some also consume a lot of energy in multiple steps, or use toxic and hazardous compounds unfriendly to the environment," says Prof Gupta, from the Department of Applied Chemistry at the university.

"Also, Diazepam is not easy to remove from wastewater using traditional methods. It is partially soluble and has a small particle size. For efficient, targeted removal, advanced hybrid nanomaterials are needed," he says.

Used everywhere

Benzodiazepine drugs are used all over the world for anxiety disorders, as anticonvulsants and anti-epileptics, and for terminally ill people as part of essential medicines list from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO list includes Diazepam, first marketed as Valium, as well as Midozolam and Lorazepam. All three are psychoactive drugs, which affect the way a person thinks and feels.

Diazepam, which can be addictive, is available in over 500 brands globally. It has become a widely-abused prescription drug.

In 2017 a team headed by a researcher from New York State University, announced a new method to simultaneously test for 89 legal neuropsychiatric pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in unfiltered wastewater and freshwater. Diazepam and several other benzodiapezines are included in the list.

Also, in 2017, a review of seven psychoactive drugs, and to what extent they show up in the aquatic environment, was published by Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). The review analysed research about Diazepam and five other benzodiapezines.

The researchers found that the presence and concentration of psychoactive drugs (such as Diazepam) is roughly the same in treated wastewater and untreated wastewater. They found that lower-income countries are worse affected. Also, in surface water, psychoactive drugs tested for were "mostly within the range that caused measurable toxic effects in ecotoxicity assays".

The big thirst

As the world rapidly urbanizes, city populations grow significantly in short timescales. In some regions this means that fresh water resources become more constrained. In South Africa, Cape Town residents dread its imminent 'Day Zero': the day the authorities will have to turn off the taps because there will be too little water left in the city's dams and reservoirs.

As a city's options for fresh water become more limited, re-using waste water, even for drinking purposes, becomes a more important option. However, for a city in a developing country, removing pharmaceuticals from waste water needs to happen in an efficient, cost-effective and speedy way. The treated water can then be added back in low volumes to the city's water supply, as is done already in Orange County in California, Singapore and Perth.

Faster, low cost wastewater treatment

"Implementing this water treatment in municipal wastewater treatment plants should be relatively quick and simple," says Prof Gupta.

Titanium dioxide nanofibers remove Diazepam and related drugs in a targeted way, during the photocatalytic decomposition process. The fibers can be used as filters in municipal or industrial treatment plants, he says.

The filter and screen will be made up of hybrid nanomaterials which are highly efficient in the removal of noxious pharmaceutical and other inorganic and organic impurities from municipal and industrial wastewater, says co-author Dr Ali Fakhri from the Department of Chemistry at Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

"We use a modified hydrothermal manufacturing method, which produces a dense chain network of hollow fibers. The fibers are cross-linked and stable, so there is low risk for fibers to be emitted in the purified wastewater," adds Dr Fakhri.

The nanofibers can be used to remove industrial dyes and other organic pollutants as well. However they need to optimize some important parameters on the fibre structure first, he says.

Concludes Prof Gupa: "The process to make the fibers is also simple and cost-effective. We are planning a pilot plant at the University of Johannesburg to manufacture these nanofibers. Every aspect of the pilot plant is planned to minimize nanofiber pollution to the environment.

"Later the pilot plant will be followed by a demonstration wastewater treatment plant, to show how nanotechnology can remove a range of pharmaceutical impurities efficiently, rapidly, and at low cost."

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Corresponding authors Vinod Kumar Gupta (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) and Ali Fakhri (Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran) would like to acknowledge financial support from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation [Grant No. 16.1384.2017/PCh]

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WILMINGTON, Del. (USA) – Solenis, a leading global producer of specialty chemicals, will increase prices by up to 15 percent on all wet strength resins globally, effective immediately. The price increase is necessary due to the significant increase in key raw material costs combined with a tightening of available supply.

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When it comes to ballast water treatment, the idea that electrochlorination is more apt a solution for large flows than the UV technology has always persisted. While the earlier generations of UV treatment systems were mostly highly power-intensive and were larger as compared to electrochlorination systems, new solutions such as the PureBallast 3 by Alfa Laval are rapidly changing this conception.

Owing to recent market developments, the UV technology ballast water treatment solutions can now easily compete with advanced electrochlorination systems on the fronts of power and footprint, even when flows as high as 1500–3000 m3/h or even more are taken into consideration. Owing to this, their lower operating costs and simple operations are making consumers rethink their choices. Earlier this year, Alfa Laval signed a contract for supplying several vessels fitted with PureBallast 3 systems for flow capacity of 3000 m3/h.

A large number of shipowners have started realizing the similar power consumption and emission patterns of electrochlorination systems and UV systems. While electrochlorination systems mostly dependent on the temperature and salinity of seawater, meaning that they require considerably more power in conditions such as low temperature and low salinity, advanced UV ballast water treatment systems such as PureBallast 3 are good to work with all varieties of water and are not affected by salinity or temperature.

In terms of form factor, UV ballast systems are smaller than electrochlorination systems and are also less costly and easier when it comes to installation. These factors make UV ballast systems compelling as compared to electrochlorination systems.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/advanced-uv-ballast-bwater-treatmentb-systems-work-well-for-high-flows634941Esra ( water world news )https://i0.wp.com/cmfenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Ballast-Water-Treatment-Systems.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1Advanced UV Ballast <b>Water Treatment</b> Systems Work Well for High FlowsGUC: <b>Water treatment</b> expansion will meet growing city&#39;s needsIncreasing Greenville’s water treatment capacity by nearly 10 million gallons a day will help meet current demand and promote growth and economic development, Greenville Utilities officials told the City Council.

But it won’t be cheap to expand the plant off of Old Pactolus Road or install transmission lines stretching from there to Bells Fork, where a new storage tank will be built, then down Fire Tower to Evans Street.

“This is not easy,” Tony Cannon, GUC’s general manager and CEO, told council members and GUC’s Board of Commissioners during a joint session at the water plant Monday night. “If I came to you with an easy solution, it would be wrong. These are complicated problems that require a lot of good people doing a lot of good thinking, and that's what we have at GUC — I firmly believe that.”

The estimated cost of the plant expansion is $47.5 million. Estimates peg the transmission line costs at $23.5 million, and the 2-million-gallon elevated water tank at $6.5 million.

To pay for this, Jonathan Britt, manager of advanced analytics analysis, said the utility is looking at water rate increases of 7.6 percent in 2019-2020 and 6.8 percent in 2021-2022. Britt said staff is hoping to offset the costs with smaller sewer rate increases.

THIRSTY CITY

The water treatment plant currently has a top production capacity of 22.5 million gallons daily, according to David Springer, the plant engineer for Water Resources Department.

Peak daily demand now reaches 17.8 million gallons per day, 80 percent of its rated capacity. During a dry summer, like the one experienced in 2010, peak demand could increase to 19.4 million gallons a day. Springer said. That is 86 percent capacity.

State regulators prohibit utilities from routinely operating at or above 80 percent capacity, so existing demand requires an upgrade, officials said, and the community will need even more clean water if it wants to grow.

A five-year study of the Tar River confirmed it can serve as a long-term water source, Springer said. GUC could remove up to 60 million gallons daily without affecting the river.

GUC doesn’t need that much water currently, Springer said, but projected residential and industrial growth the plant’s processing capacity should be increased to 32 million gallons daily.

Along with increasing the water plant’s production capacity, GUC has received an engineer’s recommendation that 13 miles of water transmission lines and the elevated water tank be added to the system, Springer said.

The engineer recommends extending the new lines down U.S. 264 East before turning south to connect with East 10th Street-N.C. 33 East. The line would continue to the Bells Fork area — where the new water tower would be erected — and continue along Fire Tower Road, ending at Evans Street.

SEWER SAVINGS

GUC Sewer rates also are projected to increase, but staff is planning modification to reduce those increases to help offset water expenses for customers.

When staff projected sewer rate increases in the recent five-year budget, it was thought GUC would have to expand its waste water facility to process a larger flow of sewage. The facility treats sewage before discharging back into the Tar River.

State regulations require wastewater treatment expansion when flow is greater than 80 percent of permitted capacity, which would be 14 million gallons daily, said Jason Manning, wastewater treatment plant superintendent. The plant’s flow reached 12 million gallons a day during Hurricane Matthew, he said.

Expected cost of an upgrade would top $12 for each gallon of additional sewage the plant must treat, but Manning and his staff were able to identify savings, he said.

A recent upgrade of equipment included a more accurate meter to gauge flow, which reported a 10 percent volume reduction due to evaporation and internal plant usage, he said.

Additionally, the treatment plant has 700 acres of property once used for application of biosolids.

Staff has talked with a stormwater mitigation bank — an entity that seeks to offset environmental damage to wetlands and waterways — about planting 100 acres of vegetative buffers along ditches and streams on the property to remove nitrogen and phosphorus that come from stormwater run off.

Manning said credits obtained for removing nitrogen and phosphorus could be sold and used to offset construction costs at the water plant or reserved for use as an incentive for new or expanding industry.

Another initiative would involve diverting treatment water from the Tar River onto the land to create a moist soil environment, sometimes called soil aquifer treatment, Manning said.

Up to 2 million gallons of water daily could be treated this way, he said. The environment, which resembles a flooded field, benefits waterfowl and wildlife, Manning said.

Between these alternatives, Manning said GUC would not need to expand the wastewater plant in the coming years, which drastically reduced the rate increases for sewer.

BOTTOM LINE

Britt said instead of seeing 7.4 percent annual increases in sewer rates, customers will see 3-3.5 percent annual increases in the next five years. He said because most GUC customers use both water and sewer, the combined rate increases have lowered, from about 7 percent annually to 5 percent in the next five years. This will amount to an increase of about $4 in the average customer’s monthly water and sewer bill.

Cannon said these projections are still just projections, and may change over time. He said the increases were necessary because of the requirements of a growing city, but growth also could help to drive rate increases down.

“Cost will continue to grow overtime, the best way for us to mitigate that is to grow our community, and increase our water sales and electric sales,” he said. “That translates into savings long term for the customer.”

Following the presentation, members of the council asked a few questions to clarify points of the presentation.

Mayor P.J. Connelly thanked Cannon and the GUC staff and said he appreciated that GUC was planning for the future and understood the city’s needs. He said it was important to ensure resources for existing residents is available and for companies that might was to locate in Greenville.

“I think it's important to understand that we are projected to grow and expand and we need to prepare for that,” he said. “Our top priority throughout our planning session was economic development, and making sure we’re putting the right resources in place, so if someone comes to us, we’ll be ready. So it’s good to see this — water is a huge component of that.”

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Ammonium phosphates are inorganic salts formed by the reaction between ammonia and phosphoric acid. They are produced as solids and fluids and they may contain phosphate values in ortho- (usually solid) and/or polyphosphate (usually fluid). The solid form of ammonium phosphate products is more common than the liquid form. Ammonium phosphates are highly unstable and are usually produced in long-chain molecules to improve stability.

On the basis of type, Di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) segment was holding the largest market share for the global ammonium phosphate market in terms of value and volume, in 2016 owing to its extensive use in fertilizers

On the basis of application, fertilizer segment held the major share of the global ammonium phosphate market, in 2016 and is anticipated to dominate the market throughout the forecast period. Ammonium phosphates are widely used as a source of nitrogen and phosphorous which are essential for plant growth

Geographically, Asia-Pacific was holding the largest market share for ammonium phosphate, in 2016 and is anticipated to dominate the market, throughout the forecast period. The demand for ammonium phosphate in this region is majorly driven by high demand from the agriculture sector

Ammonium phosphate market is anticipated to witness a significant growth over the forecast period owing to its major share in the fertilizer industry. DAP was holding the major share of ammonium phosphate market in 2016. DAP fertilizer is an excellent source of phosphorous and nitrogen which are essential for plant nutrition. The high solubility of DAP allows it to dissolve quickly in soil to release plant-available phosphate and ammonium. Additionally, the ammonium present in DAP is an excellent source of nitrogen which gradually gets converted into nitrate by soil bacteria, leading to a subsequent drop in pH level, thus boosting the crop growth. With increasing global population and rapid urbanization, it is necessary to produce more crops from the limited cultivable lands to meet the global demand for food. The properties of di-ammonium phosphate favoring crop production are expected to boost the global ammonium phosphate market.

Ammonium Phosphate Market- Regional Insight

Asia-Pacific was holding the largest share of the global ammonium phosphate market, in terms of value and volume, in 2016 and is anticipated to lead the market, throughout the forecast period. China accounted for the major share of Asia-Pacific’s ammonium phosphate market followed by India. High demand for ammonium phosphate in the region is attributed to the growing agriculture industry. North America was the second largest market for ammonium phosphate. The U.S. was the major consumer of ammonium phosphate accounting for more than 70% share in the North American market. The demand for ammonium phosphate in North America is anticipated to increase over the forecast period owing to improved reforms by the government on the consumption of fertilizers in crops. In South America, Brazil is an emerging market for ammonium phosphate. The growing agriculture and water treatment chemicals industries are expected to boost the ammonium phosphate market in the region.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/ammonium-phosphate-facilitating-crop-nutrition-to-witness-a-cagr-of-34-during-2017-2023634944Esra ( water world news )Ammonium Phosphate Facilitating Crop Nutrition, to Witness a CAGR of 3.4% During 2017 – 2023 ...Global Point of Entry <b>Water Treatment</b> Systems Market 2018 by Manufacturers – 3M, Honeywell ...The complete analysis of the market is added in this Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems Market report and it was achieved using the exhaustive qualitative insights, the chronological data that was collected, and the statistical data of the market. The collected data was verified through several important studies, researches, and reliable methodologies which were conducted at the beginning of the report.

While evaluating the database regarding Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems market, effective analytical tools such as market attractiveness analysis and investment return and feasibility analyses were used. To form an accurate picture of the Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems market’s historical developments, and implement future winning strategies during the forecast period, results of these analytical methods were used.

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Europe includes Germany, France, UK, Italy, and Russia
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Section 1:This section covers the Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems market overview starting with the introduction it includes market analysis by type, applications, and regions. Various regions of the global Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems industry includes North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, the Middle-East and Africa. Statistics and outlook for 2012 to 2022 of the Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems industry are presented in this section.Section 2:This section covers Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems manufacturers profiles in terms of business overview, product type and application. It also includes sales, Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems product price, revenue, gross margin, volume and Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems market share of each player is described in this report.Section 3 and Section 4:These sections present the Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems competition of each manufacturer based on sales, revenue, and market share. It also covers the Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems market scenario based on regional conditions. Region-wise Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems sales and growth (2012-2018) is studied in this report.Section 5 and Section 6:These two sections cover the countries especially North America and Europe Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems industry by countries. Under this market share, sales, revenue of the countries like USA, Canada, and Mexico are provided.Section 7, Section 8 and Section 9:These 3 sections cover Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East and Africa Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems industry based on the factors such as sales revenue and growth in all the regions.Section 10 and Section 11:These sections depict the Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems market share, market segment by type, revenue, sales by product type and application. The Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems sales growth seen during 2012-17 is covered in this report.Section 12 and Section 13:These sections provide forecast Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems market information from 2018 to 2022 for each region. The sales channels includes direct and indirect Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems marketing, and traders, distributors, and development trends are presented in this report.Section 14 and Section 15:In these sections Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems market distributors, traders, and dealers are included. Key research findings and conclusion, research methodology, and data sources are covered. Thus, the global Point of Entry Water Treatment Systems report gives a complete structure of the market covering all the vital factors and detailed information.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/global-point-of-entry-bwater-treatmentb-systems-market-2018-by-manufacturers-3m-honeywell634945Esra ( water world news )Global Point of Entry <b>Water Treatment</b> Systems Market 2018 by Manufacturers – 3M, Honeywell ...Manitoba rivers feed 400M pieces of microplastic into Lake Winnipeg every yearThe waste waters of the Assiniboine and Red rivers are bringing 400 million pieces of tiny plastic into Lake Winnipeg every year, but most of it is thin, wiry and so small that even the avid angler or beachgoer probably doesn't know it's there, new research suggests.

"If you have a cottage there you wouldn't notice," said Sarah Warrack, a master's student at the University of Manitoba whose research on microplastics found in Manitoba fish, rivers and Lake Winnipeg sheds light on a developing problem in freshwater ecosystems around the world. It was published in the most recent issue of Proceedings of Manitoba's Undergraduate Science and Engineering Research.

"The problem is plastic itself and we rely very heavily as a society on plastic. It's cheap, it's easy," she said. "Microplastics are everywhere and they are not a problem that's going away."

Warrack found microplastics at every site she sampled on the Assiniboine and Red Rivers — The Forks had the most — and the stuff turned up in nearly every fish she dissected. The research also suggests commercial toiletry products, synthetic clothing and waste water treatment plants in Winnipeg could be the main culprits.

Sarah Warrack (left) and Mark Hanson in the lab at the University of Manitoba. The pair is studying microplastic pollution in Lake Winnipeg and the Assiniboine and Red Rivers. (Bryce Hoye/CBC)

"I think what this tells us is that over time, we've had a sort of a disregard for what we put into our environments, especially things we can't see," said Mark Hanson, Warrack's supervisor in the department of environment and geography at the U of M.

"If you don't see it in the water, you don't think it's a problem," he said. "Next time you're on the beach, take a look, I am sure you will find stuff, fine little particles sort of grinding away."

Banned in toothpaste, face scrubs

Microplastics are five millimetres in diameter (about the size of a sesame seed) or less, and fall into a few different categories: microbeads or pellets, which are found in some crafting products and exfoliating bath and body scrubs; fragments that are jagged and may have broken off of larger plastic debris; foams that are spongy and light; fibres from synthetic clothing; and films that are thin and may come from things like plastic bags.

Sarah Warrack holds up a file of tiny microbeads in the lab at the University of Manitoba. These were purchased from a craft store to compare them to the beads she pulled out of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. (Wendy Buelow/CBC)

Effective this past January, the Canadian government banned toiletry products containing microbeads — such as toothpaste, skin cleansers and exfoliants — from being made or imported in the country, citing potential environmental concerns.

The ban on the sale of those products takes effect on Canada Day this year, although natural health products and non-prescription drugs containing microbeads will be allowed to be sold until July 1, 2019.

"Don't use those things to wash your face," Warrack said. "Don't litter, use reusable cups if you're going somewhere like Starbucks. Try to wear clothing that is all natural fibres — like cotton, there's bamboo out there, wool — and I would say don't use things that contain microbeads."

There isn't any compelling evidence yet that consuming microplastics is harmful to humans or larger animals.

"If you think of a fish. It's a large animal … it's eating all sorts of things it has to ingest. Bones, scales. Ingesting microplastics is going to be low on its list of concerns," Hanson said.

There's so much microplastic floating around in the atmosphere that chances are you inhaled a fibre or two this morning, but Hanson says it won't hurt you.

This microscopic image shows a tiny zooplankton tangled in a microplastic fibre. Researchers worry plastics may also be impacting the base of the ocean food chain. (Vancouver Aquarium)

That's not to say filter-feeding snails, mussels, tiny translucent aquatic invertebrates or other small creature couldn't face issues. The research on this stuff is still in its infancy.

One thing that is clear is research out last year that showed Lake Winnipeg had about five billion pieces of microplastic floating in its surface waters — greater densities than Lake Superior and Lake Huron.

Levels were also comparable to Lake Eerie, despite the fact that nearly 10 times as many people live on or near Lake Eerie's shores than do on Lake Winnipeg.

That research found the majority of plastic in Lake Winnipeg comes in the form of microfibres that come off clothing such as fleece in the wash. And Warrack's research found the same thing: 89 per cent of her plastic samples were microfibres.

Many in Canada's clothing industry worry that fleece, like this raw material at MEC's Vancouver test facility, could be a major source of microplastics. (Tristan Le Rudulier/CBC)

Microplastics in river waste water

Warrack built on those findings by looking at where microplastics in the lake are coming from, and she opened up some fish to see whether the tiny beads and fibres were also turning up in their bellies.

She analyzed 17 sauger and carp caught in the Red River at Selkirk Park. About half of the sauger contained at least one microplastic while nearly all carp, which primarily feed on river and lake bottoms, contained seven pieces on average.

The left frame shows microplastics that were found in Lake Winnipeg samples taken near Grand Rapids, at the inflow of the North Saskatchewan River. The right frame shows a tiny 10-mm phytoplankton found in the south basin. (Philip J. Anderson et al)

She strategically sampled water at five sites on the Red and Assiniboine rivers located upstream and downstream from Winnipeg's three waste water treatment plants — the North, South and West End Water Pollution Centres.

Microplastic was found at every sample site; the highest amounts were found on the Red and Assiniboine River in June, which lined up with times with the highest discharge of raw waste water from treatment plants, the report states.

There was more floating in the surface waters of the Assiniboine (1.2 million pieces on average per square kilometre) than in the Red (806,000).

"We found very high densities of microplastics in those rivers — that's basically due to the waste water treatment plants releasing their effluent into it," Warrack said.

'A lot of Styrofoam,' plastic at The Forks

The site with the most microplastic "by far" was at the confluence of the two rivers at The Forks in downtown Winnipeg. There was also a lot more larger plastic litter at that site compared to others.

"You see a lot of Styrofoam, which I find weird, and a lot of cigarette buts, which again, there's plastic probably in the filter itself," she said.

A man takes a cast at The Forks in the summer. (CBC)

Water samples were also drawn from a sixth site on the Nelson River that flows north out of Lake Winnipeg and past Norway House Cree Nation. Warrack was surprised to find that only about one per cent of microplastics flowing in were then flowing out the north basin.

"We're not quite sure what's happening there," Warrack said.

Warrack said waste water treatment plants manage to filter out about 90 per cent of all microplastics that are flushed or sent down drains in homes. The remaining 10 per cent ends up in local rivers that flow north and transport the plastics into Lake Winnipeg, she added.

That translates to one microplastic for every one million litres of treated water discharged into the river. For comparison sake, an Olympic swimming pool holds about 2.5 million litres of water.

It isn't clear yet if waste water effluent is the main source of microplastics in Lake Winnipeg, but Warrack's research suggests that could be the case, as do past studies that have shown treatment facilities in other places are better at catching microbeads as opposed to the fibres that make up the bulk of microplastic in Lake Winnipeg.

​Moving forward, Hanson and Warrack hope to get a better grasp on how all that plastic is behaving once it's in Lake Winnipeg — whether most of it is at the surface, like what they've seen so far, or whether an ocean of tiny plastic is blanketing the lake bottom.

In the meantime, an important takeaway from her research is one for the consumer.

"They're [microplastics] everywhere but maybe we can try to mitigate that problem by just making better choices," Warrack said.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/manitoba-rivers-feed-400m-pieces-of-microplastic-into-lake-winnipeg-every-year634946Esra ( water world news )https://i.cbc.ca/1.4542177.1519073674!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/sarah-warrack-and-mark-hanson-university-of-manitoba-researchers.jpgManitoba rivers feed 400M pieces of microplastic into Lake Winnipeg every yearGlobal High-Purity <b>Water Treatment</b> Market 2021 is Touching New Levels of Success ...The “High-Purity Water Treatment Market” report gives an intelligible understanding of the present market condition which includes of substantial and predictable upcoming keyword opportunities for the investors and new entrants.

This Report provides key information about the industry, including significant facts, expert opinions, suppliers, technological developments and the most recent improvements over the globe.

High-Purity Water Treatment Market report providing a strong boost to global industry and accounting 7.81% CAGR from 2017 to 2021.

Scope of the Report: This report focuses on the High-Purity Water Treatment in Global market, especially in APAC, Europe, North America, ROW. This report categorizes the market based on manufacturers, regions, type and application.

High-Purity Water Treatment Market Report Covered:

Industry overview: Executive summary, Scope of the report, brief introduction of Major Applications and its Segmentation.

Five forces analysis: Bargaining power of buyers & suppliers, Threat of new entrants, substitutes, rivalry

Major manufactures production and sales by country: Regional Major Manufacturers, Vendor landscape and Key vendor analysis.

The research covers the current market size of the Global Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals market and its growth rates based on 5 year history data. It also covers various types of segmentation such as by geography [North America, China, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan & India], by product /end user type [Corrosion & Scale Inhibitors, Coagulants & Flocculants, Biocides & Disinfectants, PH Adjusters & Other], by applications [Power Generation, Oil & Gas, Municipal Water Treatment, Industrial Water Treatment & Other] in overall market. The in-depth information by segments of Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals market helps monitor performance & make critical decisions for growth and profitability. It provides information on trends and developments, focuses on markets and materials, capacities, technologies, CAPEX cycle and the changing structure of the Global Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals Market.

This study also contains company profiling, product picture and specifications, sales, market share and contact information of various international, regional, and local vendors of Global Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals Market, some of them are Arkema, BASF, Kemira, SNF Group, Chemifloc, Kurita, AkzoNobel, The Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, GE Water&Process Technologies, Evonik & Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies. The market competition is constantly growing higher with the rise in technological innovation and M&A activities in the industry. Moreover, many local and regional vendors are offering specific application products for varied end-users. The new vendor entrants in the market are finding it hard to compete with the international vendors based on quality, reliability, and innovations in technology.�Global Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals (Thousands Units) and Revenue (Million USD) Market Split by Product Type such as Corrosion & Scale Inhibitors, Coagulants & Flocculants, Biocides & Disinfectants, PH Adjusters & Other

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Geographically, this report is segmented into several key Regions, with production, consumption, revenue (million USD), and market share and growth rate of Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals in these regions, from 2012 to 2022 (forecast), covering

What will the market size be in 2022 and what will the growth rate beWhat are the key market trendsWhat is driving Global Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals marketWhat are the challenges to market growthWho are the key vendors in Global Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals market space?What are the key market trends impacting the growth of the Global Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals market?What are the key outcomes of the five forces analysis of the Global Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals market?

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City officials should work with staff to create a better system of paying for off-site storm water treatment that is fair to all Portland property owners.

The return of precipitation last week was cheered by skiers, farmers and others who depend on the winter snowpack for recreation and their livelihoods.

For Portlanders, it also was a reminder that the rain comes at a price. As evidenced by a current dust-up at City Hall, there is a concern — which we share — that the current payment plan for safely handling all that rainfall is inequitable.

When moisture lands on impervious surfaces such as rooftops, sidewalks, parking lots and playgrounds, it has to go somewhere. As it runs downhill and flows into our streets, it picks up pollutants that must be treated before the water can be drained into the Willamette River.

The cost of managing and treating the rain water is passed on to the city's utility customers in the form of a city-imposed storm drainage fee.

The city Bureau of Environmental Services fee is split into two chunks:

About one third is pegged to the estimated runoff from that specific property. About two-thirds of the fee is to pay for citywide storm water treatment, including the water running from streets and other public properties.

In Portland, rather than measure each single-family home's impervious surface, the city charges a flat fee of $18.60 a month for the on-site share.

Property owners can reduce that bill if they use "eco-roofs," rain gardens, swales or other features that keep rainwater on their property.

But, there's no way to get out of the off-site share, as that is considered everyone's obligation to pay for the city-wide system.

OK. So far, so good.

But there are problems with how the city charges owners of multifamily residential and commercial properties. Their bills are based on the properties' impervious surfaces.

In 2015, the city, using satellite imagery, started measuring the size of the roofs of houseboats which, because they are in moorages, are classified as commercial property. It then counted that area as an impervious surface, which tripled or quadrupled the houseboat owners off-site share of the storm-water bills.

The city did so even while acknowledging the obvious fact that almost all the rain falling onto houseboat roofs goes directly into the river, bypassing the storm drainage system.

Rather than back off the illogical assessment, city officials doubled down, saying the houseboat owners were trying to get out of paying their "fair share" of storm drainage costs.

The conflict caught the attention of Portland Tribune reporter Steve Law, who decided to check into what others pay for off-site storm drainage. The 2015 change in houseboat assessments reportedly pushed some owners' costs for off-site storm water treatment up to $25 a month, which is more than the $18.60 a month charged to owners of single-family homes standing on soil.

Curious, Law looked at assessments on mid-size apartments and learned that those residents are paying just $2 to $3 a month for off-site treatment, one-sixth to one-ninth the charges to single-family homes. And residents living in high-rises, including fancy condos, typically pay less than $1 a month toward the costs of shared expenses, because they have less impervious surface per unit.

We agree with the City Council's insistence that everyone pay their fair share of the cost of treating the storm water that drains onto public streets and winds up in our rivers. However, commissioners' focus on houseboat owners, some of whom are reportedly paying more than the average, is misplaced.

Rather, city officials should work with staff to create a better system of paying for off-site storm water treatment that is fair to all Portland property owners.

We realize there are legal concerns about creating anything that looks like a "head tax." But if they can come up with a flat fee for owners of single-family homes, they can do the same for those who live in multi-unit buildings and houseboats.

Until they can treat all property owners equitably, the city should back off on their changes to houseboat owners' assessments.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/our-opinion-equity-needed-in-storm-drainage-fee634717Esra ( water world news )Our Opinion: Equity needed in storm drainage feeNearly 23000 without power in Taranaki, pipeline to New Plymouth <b>water</b> reservoir ruptured

Nearly 23,000 Taranaki properties were without power and a pipeline to a New Plymouth water reservoir was ruptured as a state of emergency was declared in the region tonight.

People watching the waves got more than they bargained for and the city's famous Len Lye Wind Wand leaned dramatically in the gale.Source: 1 NEWS

The emergency was declared in Taranaki due to high winds affecting roads and essential services, including power and water supplies, as Ex-Cyclone Gita tracks across the country.

Nearly 23,000 Taranaki properties were without power at 6.20pm and Taranaki Civil Defence said some may be without power overnight and into tomorrow.

The pipeline from the New Plymouth water treatment station to the Mangorei Reservoir has been ruptured by a falling tree.

Residents in eastern parts of New Plymouth District - New Plymouth, Bell Block, Waitara, Tikorangi, Onaero and Urenui - are being urged to conserve water and use only the bare minimum.

Fallen trees and traffic accidents are disrupting traffic flows on number of highways and local roads, Civil Defence said.

Gust of up to 140kmh in South Taranaki and 120kmh in North Taranaki are expected to continue until 1am, after which winds should gradually ease, it said.

However, the effects of the storm would be felt well into tomorrow and beyond, due the scale of damage to infrastructure.

The effect of storm swells on vulnerable coastal communities is being monitored, Civil Defence said.

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Greenvile Utilities spent Monday's meeting bringing City Council up to speed on an expansion project that they say is necessary to meet Greenville's water needs as it continues to grow. (Nicole Griffin, NewsChannel 12 photo)

GREENVILLE, Pitt County —

Greenville Utilities spent Monday's meeting bringing City Council up to speed on an expansion project that they say is necessary to meet Greenville's water needs as it continues to grow.

That project means customers could see their water bills increase by around $1.50 per month, according to Greenville Utilities Commission. So, as Greenville grows, so does the demand for water ... along with bill to produce it.

"We make sure we are doing everything that we can to make sure those rate increases are not terrible for our customers," said Steve Hawley with Greenville Utilities. "We're growing the system to help keep up with the growth of the Greeenville region."

That's why GUC says it needs to start working on expanding its capacity sooner rather than later. The project would allow GUC to go from a capacity of 22.5 million gallons a day to 32 million gallons a day.

"Right now, our peak capacity is running right in the area of about 80 percent of our maximum capacity, which is really just a fancy way of saying now is the time we have to start moving in getting the expansion done," Hawley said.

Phase 1 of the plan started in 2015 and now, GUC is ready to move to the final engineering phase.

"I mean you're talking about a $77 million expansion," Greenville Mayor P.J. Connelly said. "So we're going to have to pay for it somehow and it will be interesting to hear some of the idea from the GUC."

"Now while you will likely see your bill go up, nothing is set in stone right now," Hawley said. "The mayor says those numbers won't be finalized until around June."

GUC hopes to begin construction on the project next year and have it completed by 2020.

Water supply operator PT PAM Lyonnaise Jaya ( Palyja ) would like to announce that it has finished all technical maintenance work at its IPA 2 Pejompongan water treatment plant.

The maintenance operations began on Feb. 17 starting at 10 p.m. and continued until the early hours of Feb. 18. Throughout the procedure, water supplies in various areas in the capital were affected. However, since 12 p.m. on Feb. 18 the supply of water has begun to return to normal in phases.

Palyja would like to thank all parties involved in this maintenance work. Throughout this maintenance period, Palyja actively sent its mobile water supply tank vehicles to places like hospitals and religious centers to prepare for potential emergency scenarios.

Palyja would also like to express its apologies for any inconveniences that may have been caused throughout this period. Palyja customers can call the company’s call center at ( 021 ) 29979999 if they need further information.

This call center is open 24 hours a day, every day of the week. They can also visit Palyja’s website at www.palyja.co.id or use its SMS services via ( 0816 ) 725952.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/palyja-bwaterb-supply-to-return-to-normal-following-ipa-2-pejompongan-repairs634555Esra ( water world news )Palyja <b>water</b> supply to return to normal following IPA 2 Pejompongan repairsGUC rates will go up with <b>water treatment</b> plant expansion and new water towerGREENVILLE, NC (WITN) Local leaders met Monday to discuss an expansion project that is going to cause some rate increases in your utility bill.

Greenville Utilities Commission is now entering phase two of a $77.5 million dollar project to expand its water treatment plant.

GUC says this expansion project is an investment that will help them keep up with the demands of this growing city.

They will expand their current water treatment plant and build a new water tower in the city of Greenville.

GUC customers can expect to see some rate increases starting next year, but right now, GUC officials are still deciding how much the rates will jump up.

GUC says they have been working on this project since 2014 and hope to start construction on the expansion by this time next year.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/guc-rates-will-go-up-with-bwater-treatmentb-plant-expansion-and-new-water-tower634556Esra ( water world news )GUC rates will go up with <b>water treatment</b> plant expansion and new water towerDe.mem poised for sales growth following successful commercial scale trials of proprietary ...Download PDF]]>http://waterworldnews.net/demem-poised-for-sales-growth-following-successful-commercial-scale-trials-of-proprietary634557Esra ( water world news )De.mem poised for sales growth following successful commercial scale trials of proprietary ...Ranhill share price slightly up on expansion of wastewater plantPETALING JAYA: Ranhill Holdings Bhd’s share price rose marginally this morning after its indirectly owned unit AnuRAK Water Treatment Facilities Co Ltd’s proposal for the expansion of the Amata wastewater treatment plant's capacity from 10 million litres per day (MLD) to 15MLD received the green light from Thailand’s Amata Water Co Ltd.

As at 11.04am, Ranhill’s share price was up one sen to 73 sen with 182,500 shares changing hands.

The group said it received a letter of acceptance yesterday for the project located in Amata City Industrial Estate in the province of Rayong, Thailand.

The 66 million baht (RM8.19 million) contract entails the construction of an additional module of the existing wastewater treatment plant facilities built by AnuRAK, to treat the increasing volume of industrial wastewater at the industrial estate.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/bwater-treatmentb-research-papers634369Esra ( water world news )<b>Water treatment</b> research papersWolfforth, HPWD drilling test well for possibly new <b>water</b> supply
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Drilling will soon begin on a new municipal water supply well in Wolfforth, which will also be used to investigate the Edwards-Trinity (High Plains) and Dockum Aquifers in western Lubbock County as possible sources of water, according to the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District.

Texas based Layne Christensen Company will begin drilling the well early next week in a project expected to be completed within two weeks, the water district announced Monday.

The City of Wolfforth is exploring possible use of groundwater in the Edwards-Trinity (High Plains) Aquifer for municipal use. This aquifer lies directly beneath the Ogallala, which is the primary aquifer on the Southern High Plains.

If adequate water is located and can be produced from the Edwards-Trinity aquifer, an initial test hole will be reamed, cased and completed for use as a municipal well to increase the City of Wolfforth’s current groundwater supply.

"If this effort proves successful, it will be less costly than pumping water from the city’s other water rights which are located southwest of Wolfforth," according to the water district.

City of Wolfforth officials are working to ensure citizens have a reliable source of clean drinking water for years to come.

“The Edwards-Trinity Aquifer will hopefully provide us with a water source that will not compete with our own wells or the irrigation wells in the area,” Wolfforth City Manager Darrell Newsom said in a statement. “Our partnership with HPWD will allow us to share information with other cities in the region, and that will help all of us. HPWD’s cooperation and support will allow us to obtain much more complete data than we would be able to obtain and understand on our own.”

The city's recently completed electro-dialysis reversal (EDR) treatment plant helps address the city's needs. This state-of-the-art water treatment plant went online in May 2017 and is currently serving approximately 4,600 citizens.

The High Plains Underground Water Conservation District (HPWD) Board of Directors unanimously agreed to cost-share this exploratory well with the City of Wolfforth in early 2017. The HPWD Board agreed to allocate $90,000 to assist with the project, plus USGS logging costs.

This is the District’s third partnership with a municipality to explore the Dockum Aquifer. In 2016, the cities of Abernathy and Lubbock, with assistance from the HPWD, drilled test wells to determine the quality and quantity of the brackish aquifer. Lubbock’s test well, located near the South Water Treatment Plant, was completed in December 2016.

“We are learning more about the Dockum Aquifer as a result of these efforts,” said HPWD General Manager Jason Coleman. “In recent years, the district has established a monitoring network in this aquifer, and these partnerships allow us to add additional data collection sites."

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/wolfforth-hpwd-drilling-test-well-for-possibly-new-bwaterb-supply634561Esra ( water world news )Wolfforth, HPWD drilling test well for possibly new <b>water</b> supplySenate committee votes down bill that would have relaxed local environmental rules

A bill limiting local communities’ ability to provide oversight and impose some control on construction site run-off was narrowly defeated by a 6-5 margin Monday.

House Bill 1096, which was heard in the Senate Environmental Affairs Committee, would have barred local authorities from imposing more stringent run-off requirements than what is authorized in Indiana code. The bill had passed 70-24 in the House.

“I can’t set my six years on the Indianapolis City County Council and my time on the Department of Public Works Committee aside and not recognize the complexity of the issue and the fact that I believe that local control works best,” Sen. Jack Sandlin, R-Indianapolis, said in opposition to the bill.

The Hoosier Environmental Council (HEC) stated in a newsletter that they oppose the bill because they are worried the bill will increase sediment pollution, which is a major source of contamination of lakes and rivers.

Kevin Osburn, principal at Rundell Erstberger Associates, spoke on behalf of the Indiana chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He echoed HEC’s concern, saying the bill could increase cost for additional water treatment.

“We believe this bill threatens the health safety and welfare of the public because it could reduce the protection of Indiana’s lakes and rivers and waterways,” Osburn said. “It could lead to degraded water quality for our drinking water, increasing the need for additional water treatment which already the highest cost most municipalities face.”

Osburn was also one of many who opposed the bill for its limit on local authority and said it would consequently affect how architects work.

“We concur that the bill undermines local authority and home rule which addresses unique challenges of each locale and each specific construction site, and thereby also limits the scope of work that landscape architects perform on behalf of the clients,” Osburn said.

Sen. Liz Brown, R-Fort Wayne, who voted in favor of the bill, said she wished Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) would have testified.

“We’ve had enough time for the locals to implement these rules. There’s nothing that I’ve heard today that IDEM is not going to open and be receptive to specific rural concerns,” Brown said.

Quinn Fitzgerald is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/senate-committee-votes-down-bill-that-would-have-relaxed-local-environmental-rules634562Esra ( water world news )Senate committee votes down bill that would have relaxed local environmental rulesCeramic <b>water</b> purifierhttp://waterworldnews.net/ceramic-bwaterb-purifier634370Esra ( water world news )Ceramic <b>water</b> purifierFlocculation in <b>water treatment</b>http://waterworldnews.net/flocculation-in-bwater-treatmentb634563Esra ( water world news )Flocculation in <b>water treatment</b>Construction and Maintenance of <b>Water Treatment</b> Plant
Drinking water treatment plants involve several consecutive processes, which remove solids, organic and inorganic pollutants, some metals and pathogenic microorganisms. The treatment plant set-up should be designed to take into account the quality of water being treated. In general, water treatment can be divided into: primary treatment to remove solids; secondary treatment to remove organic compounds as well as nitrogen and phosphorous; and tertiary treatment for disinfection.

Different sizes of treatment plants exist like centralised plants for big cities requiring a developed distribution system and semi-centralised plants adapted to provide drinking water to smaller communities at the point of use (POU).

Drinking Water Treatment Plants
(Adapted from EPA 1999)

There is no precise method for treating surface water because of the various qualities of water that exists. Groundwater typically requires less treatment than water from lakes, rivers and the sea. Nevertheless, a series of conventional processes can be identified; they are presented in the figures below.

General set-up of a drinking water treatment plant and example of the city of Tulsa. Source: BOULDER (2011), TULSA (2011)

General set-up of a drinking water treatment plant and example of the city of Tulsa. Source: BOULDER (2011); TULSA (2011)
In general the treatment of fresh water involves the following key steps:

Primary Steps

Aeration: The water is mixed to liberate dissolved gases and to suspend particles in the water column. Sometimes a pre-oxidation step is also performed at this stage.
Coagulation-Flocculation: In this step coagulants are added to remove the suspended particles (clay, organic material, metals, microorganisms), which stick to the coagulants forming heavy particles.
Sedimentation: The heavy particles (flocs) settle to the bottom leading to clear water.
Secondary Step

Filtration: The water is run through a series of filters, which trap and remove particles still remaining in the water column. Typically, slow or rapid sand filtration and more recently membranes or reverse osmosis are used to accomplish this task. Due to growing concerns regarding micro-pollutants, additional treatments such as advanced oxidation processes, activated carbon adsorption alone or combined with ozonation or H2O2 are sometimes used to remove these trace organic compounds.
Tertiary Step

Disinfection: The water is now largely free of particles, organics and microorganism and is now treated to destroy any remaining disease-causing pathogens. This is commonly done with chlorination, ozonation, hydrogen peroxide, or UV radiation (similar to the point of use UV tubes). The water is then sent to the pumping station for distribution to homes and businesses. Chlorination is the most widely used disinfection method because it permits maintaining residual chlorine at a level efficient enough to guarantee the absence of microorganism until the water has reached its point of use.
When drinking water is produced from the sea, the water is desalinated by electrolysis or membranes such as reverse osmosis or by a solar process desalination.

Operation and Maintenance
(Adapted from CWEA 2004)

Drinking water treatment plant operation and maintenance includes the following tasks:

Operate and adjust equipment controls to purify and clarify water.
Inspect equipment and monitor operating conditions, meters, and gauges to determine load requirements and detect malfunctions.
Add chemicals, such as ammonia, chlorine, and lime, to purify and disinfect water and other chemicals, such as ferric chloride, peroxide, and polymers, to enhance water treatment.
Collect and test water samples, using test equipment.
Record operational and laboratory data, observations of processes, and meter and gauge readings on specified forms.
Clean and maintain tanks, basins and filter beds, using hand tools and power tools.
Maintain, repair, and lubricate equipment, using hand tools and power tools.
Many of these tasks can be automated in modern treatment plants but trained operators and engineers a

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/construction-and-maintenance-of-bwater-treatmentb-plant634564Esra ( water world news )Construction and Maintenance of <b>Water Treatment</b> PlantPave paradise? Parking lot proposed for staff at Epcor&#39;s Gold Bar wastewater <b>treatment</b> facilityEdina is looking to build a water treatment plant at Southdale Center that would improve the city’s water taste and clarity.

The 10,000-square-foot facility would go up just north of the city’s water tower on the northeast corner of France Avenue S. and W. 69th Street. The planning commission signed off on the plans last week; the City Council is expected to hold a public hearing and final vote at its meeting Wednesday.

If approved, the city would begin the bidding process for the estimated $10.5 million plant in April.

City staff and planning commissioners praised the plant’s design, which includes an educational component for residents to learn how local water is treated.

“Usually these look like a dud and an eyesore,” Commissioner Jimmy Bennett said at last week’s meeting. “This is pretty amazing.”

A screen on the north side of the building would display a video explaining how the plant operates. The building would also have a patio, ivy-covered walls and greenery on the roof.

“We ... don’t want it to look like a bleak bunker,” said Ross Bintner, engineering services manager for the city. “We want to make sure that when you’re driving by ... it’s going to evoke the feeling of water.”

The City Council looked at other locations for the plant last year, including near Fred Richards and Adams Hill parks, all of which posed higher construction costs. The Southdale location, now occupied by a handful of parking spaces, was thought to be the cheapest option, said Engineering Director Chad Millner.

It would be the fifth treatment plant in the city and would oxidize, filter and disinfect water from local wells, processes to reduce iron and manganese. The clean water would then be pumped to the adjacent tower.

In addition to approving the design plans, the council would also have to OK a variance reducing building setbacks from France Avenue from 35 to 19 feet.

Commissioner John Hamilton said having the plant at a busy intersection is a great way for Edina’s residents to learn how the city’s utilities function.

“It couldn’t be a better site than front and center, unless it happened to be at 50th and France,” he quipped.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/visually-appealing-bwater-treatmentb-plant-in-the-works-for-edina634372Esra ( water world news )Visually appealing <b>water treatment</b> plant in the works for EdinaAfter Boracay, Panglao faces shutdown too

ENVIRONMENTAL WOES Like Boracay, Panglao Island, Bohol’s tourism jewel, is suffering from environmental problems because of unregulated development, lax enforcement of laws, and continued surge in tourist arrivals. —LEO UDTOHAN

PANGLAO, Bohol — After Boracay, another island in the Visayas could be the next target of President Rodrigo Duterte after he was told that it was teeming with resorts with no septic tanks and proper waste disposal facilities.

Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia, a Boholano, told the Inquirer on Monday that Mr. Duterte planned to shut down the erring resorts on Panglao Island in Bohol province if these violations were not corrected.

Pernia said Panglao was suffering from environmental problems because of unregulated development, lax enforcement of laws, and continued surge in tourist arrivals.

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“It could be next if violators would not correct their mistakes by complying with environmental laws and regulations,” he said in a phone interview. “It’s a warning to save the country’s prime tourist destinations from further environmental destruction.”

Pernia, who heads the National Economic and Development Authority, said local officials could prevent Panglao from becoming another Boracay by enforcing environmental laws.

Panglao, which is composed of Dauis and Panglao towns, is Bohol’s tourism jewel. But it has been facing environmental concerns over the past years.

Resort owners construct illegal structures in restricted zones and managing wastewater is among the critical concerns of the island, as it has no sewerage system and wastewater facility.

In an interview over radio station dzRD’s “Inyong Alagad” on Friday, Pernia expressed disappointment that such environmental violations were tolerated by local officials, both in the provincial and municipal levels.

Mr. Duterte has issued a six-month deadline for government agencies, local government units and business operators to address Boracay’s environmental problems.

He called the popular tourist destination a “cesspool” and “full of shit” and threatened to close down the 1,032-hectare island.

Pernia said that to avoid closure, erring resort owners in Panglao should follow the law.

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33 have EMB permit

There are at least 200 commercial establishments operating in Panglao town, but only 33 establishments have permits from the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), an agency attached to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

Panglao Councilor Rogelyn Clemeña-Degoma pointed out that most establishments in Panglao had no wastewater treatment facility.

On Jan. 4, the EMB presented results of tests made by its ambient monitoring station on the water quality of Alona Beach in the village of Tawala.

The tests found that the level of fecal coliform continued to spike and breach acceptable levels.

According to the test results, total fecal coliform in the area was 305.70 most probable number (MPN) per 100 milliliters, way above the acceptable level of 100 MPN per 100 ml. Fecal coliform bacteria come from human and animal feces.

The EMB, however, assured tourists that overall water quality in Panglao was within acceptable standards, especially for swimming and water sports activities.

Bohol needs to strengthen its tourism potential by moving back the illegal structures on the beaches, especially along the Alona stretch, Degoma said.

Eye opener

She said Boracay’s case was a lesson and an eye opener for all local officials in Bohol.

“By this time, we will strictly implement the requirement for the discharge permit of businesses and the implementation of building structures within the 20-meter salvage [or easement] zone,” the councilor said.

Municipal workers will be assigned to monitor the cleanliness of the beaches.

“We will be negotiating partnerships with private individuals for a water treatment and sewerage treatment facility,” Degoma said.

Cindylyn Pepito of EMB’s Ambient Quality Monitoring Section said a massive cleanup would be held on March 6 to save Panglao Island.

“We still have the opportunity to correct bad practices,” Pepito said.

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Oregon’s seafood industry has concerns about the new version of a permit to regulate wastewater discharges from seafood processing facilities.

The draft 900-J National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit will replace a previous version that expired in 2011, but the new version includes significant changes in industry practices. The state hopes to address pollutants from organic material as well as oil, grease, bacteria and ammonia that can be harmful to aquatic life.

“There are new parameters that could be a challenge for processors,” said Laura Gleim, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Environmental Equality. “This renewed permit places limits on pollutants that didn’t have limits in previous iterations of this permit, including ammonia, chlorine, bacteria and temperature.”

Wastewater discharges from nine seafood facilities in Clatsop County are already covered under — or the facilities have applied for — the general permit which expired in 2011 or the individual National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, including BioOregon Protein, Bornstein Seafoods, Astoria Pacific Seafoods and Pacific Coast Seafoods.

To comply with the new general permit, processors may have to alter standard operating procedures and management practices. Some processors may need to upgrade their facilities and bring on more advanced water treatment and monitoring systems that will likely come with hefty price tags. Depending on where they are located, processors may struggle to find room for secondary treatment.

“I don’t think there’s anybody in the industry who thinks that the implementation of this permit is not going to cost something,” said Lori Steel with the West Coast Seafood Processors Association, which represents 16 of the 24 plants in Oregon that are subject to a renewal of the permit.

The association maintains that some of the state’s proposals to ensure water quality are not feasible for seafood processing facilities, which often handle very different species depending on the season.

“What’s going through the wastewater changes,” Steel said. “It’s not consistent year-round. … (DEQ) is drawing analogies to other industries and trying to implement the same requirements that a lot of municipal industries have.”

To her, it is like trying to fit square pegs into round holes.

Lacy Ogan, with Pacific Seafood, said the company is working with industry partners to help the state develop “an appropriate permit.”

Steel said the industry isn’t “looking for the status quo, or no regulation, or to go back. We’re just looking to work with the state to create something that will address the needs of the water and the needs of the processors.”

Pacific Seafood retained its permit coverage even after a fire burned down the company’s Warrenton facility in 2013. The processor will have to update its application materials in response to the new permit, Gleim said.

The Department of Environmental Quality is accepting public comments on a draft of the proposed permit through March 29 and is holding three public hearings along the coast, including one in Astoria on March 19. That hearing is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at Clatsop Community College’s Columbia Hall, Room 219.

Sokoto State Water Board has said it has concluded arrangements for the procurement of 3,650 metric tonnes of water treatment chemicals at the cost of N657 million.

The board’s General Manager, Mr. Ahmed Moyi Tambuwal, an engineer, told The Nation that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with a local company for the purchase of the chemicals.

“The essence is to provide clean water for domestic and public consumption in the state,” he said.

Moyi noted that there is a shortfall in the supply of water, adding that the board has started receiving stocks from the supplying firm for the treatment and pumping of raw water from Bakolori and Goronyo River Basins.

Moyi said the current water shortage being experienced in the metropolis would soon be over as water is being pumped to the affected areas.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/sokoto-gets-bwater-treatmentb-chemicals634375Esra ( water world news )Sokoto gets <b>water treatment</b> chemicalsGUC to meet with City Council on <b>water</b> plant expansionGREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) —The Greenville City Council is meeting with Greenville Utilities at the water plant Monday to discuss progress on its expansion.

The expansion began in 2014.

GUC communications director Steve Hawley said with new city council members, he wants to get everyone on the same page.

“We are really giving the board people an update of what is to come, letting them know how we have been trying to save money and what the project will actually cost,” Hawley said.

He said it will cost $77.5 million over the next ten years but also said they are finding ways to save money.

“Our waste water folks have come up with several differ conservation projects where they have been able to defer having to expand the plant,” said Hawley.

Keeping the plant inside its current parameters on Aqua Lane will cut costs.

GUC water treatment plant superintendent Julius Patrick said the expansion will add 10 more basins to the plant, producing 10 million more gallons of water per day.

“We’ve seen our peak day demand at about 80 percent of capacity,” said Patrick. “Going up another additional 10 million gallons a day would ensure Greenville Utilities is safe for the future as far as water supply.”

The plant will churn out about 32 million gallons total a day.

“The potential growth for Greenville is the whole reason why we are doing it,” said Hawley. “We are trying to meet current capacity, but as you look around, you see new houses going up, new businesses being built, new apartment complexes going up, and we have to be able to meet those demands for the next few years and future as well.”

Hawley said they are looking ahead, so they can continue to meet the growing demands of Greenville.

“We are always on the lookout for how can you maintain those costs and reduce them as much as possible and serve our customers now and in the future,” Hawley said.

Construction will begin next summer.

The project is supposed to be complete by 2022.

Hawley said they try to plan expansions once every about 20 years. The last one was in 2002.

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]]>http://waterworldnews.net/dialysis-bwater-treatmentb-system-market-outlook-2021634151Esra ( water world news )Dialysis <b>Water Treatment</b> System Market Outlook 2021Seddon so close to clean <b>water</b> they can almost taste it

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Work at the Seddon water treatment plant is underway.

Seddon residents have less than a year left of boiling tap water as the town's new water treatment plant should be ready by Christmas.

Work on the plant, above the Seddon War Memorial, started last month and the bulk of the earthworks had been completed.

Marlborough District Council project engineer Mark Power said the water would go through multiple stages of filtration, bringing an end to decades of unclean drinking water for the town.

"It will go through a course filter and then it will go through an ultra fine membrane filter. Then it will get chlorine treatment and pushed back out into town," Power said.

Turbid water and flooding had caused issues with the town's water supply since the 1940s.

The town's water supply had to be boiled for safety reasons, with reported cases of E Coli in the water in 2005 and 2006.

- Stuff

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Jennette Barnes @jbarnesnews

NEW BEDFORD — Marion is eligible for a low-interest loan of $25.2 million from the State Revolving Fund for upgrades at the wastewater treatment plant, state officials announced Thursday.

Seven other drinking-water or wastewater projects in Dartmouth, New Bedford, Wareham and Westport are eligible for loans at 2 percent interest, according to a news release from the Baker administration. Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito and Treasurer Deb Goldberg announced loans for 86 projects statewide during an event in Billerica.

To accept the loans, communities must decide to move forward with their projects by June 30 and secure local funding authority.

Marion has drawn criticism for using three unlined lagoons to hold wastewater. The Buzzards Bay Coalition sued the town over the lagoons Jan. 31, saying they leak up to 50,000 gallons of wastewater a day.

For New Bedford, the state offered loans of $36.4 million for improvements to the wastewater collection system; $11.2 million for rehabilitation of High Hill Reservoir; $3.8 million for meter work; and $2.5 million for a facilities plan for the wastewater treatment plant.

At High Hill, a covered reservoir, the roof is old and in danger of collapse, especially under the weight of snow, according to Jamie Ponte, commissioner of the New Bedford Department of Public Infrastructure.

Recent inspections have identified serious deficiencies in the roof and its support system, including failed beam connections, broken anchor bolts, and beams that have moved on their supports, according to a project summary provided by Ed Coletta, spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. The proposed work also includes replacement of inoperable inlet and outlet valves, removal of sediment on the floor of the reservoir, and a new mixing system to improve water circulation.

The reservoir holds 75 million gallons, Ponte said.

The Wareham Fire District has been offered a $4.9 million loan to construct a ground water treatment plant to ensure the quality of drinking water. The project includes iron and manganese control and disinfection, and it will employ alternative energy to reduce consumption of fossil fuels, according to the project summary.

Dartmouth has been approved for a $1.8 million loan to reduce trihalomethane levels in the town water supply by changing the secondary disinfection agent from free chlorine to chloramines. Trihalomethanes have been associated with adverse health effects.

Westport is eligible for a $150,000 loan to write a plan to improve water quality in the Westport River by reducing the nitrogen load. The plan will also assess water infrastructure demands from future development and address the health risk to residents who live on small lots that do not meet Title V setbacks, according to the project summary.

Administered by the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust, the latest round of financing totals $610.5 million across the state.

Akvola Technologies celebrates new headquarters and larger team

Akvola Technologies GmbH, a water technology company providing solutions for the removal of oils, emulsions and suspended solids from hard-to-treat industrial wastewater, announced it received a record number of purchase orders — 16 in 2017 — all of them from leading companies in the metalworking, oil and gas and steel industries. To accommodate continued business growth, the company moved its headquarters to a business park located near Tegel airport in Germany. The facilities include a new workshop to handle the increased production output. A new pilot plant has been built to support the increasing demand for the technology in China. Also during 2017, two new application engineers and two new sales engineers joined the team in order to manage the increasing project backlog and sales pipeline.

H2O Innovation wins two industrial projects worth $4.9M

H2O Innovation Inc. announced it was awarded two new industrial projects totaling $4.9 million, bringing the corporation’s project sales backlog to $56.1 million. H2O Innovation’s first project consists of a water reuse system, combining its flexMBR open technology and reverse osmosis. This system will treat 0.7 mgd (2,650 m3/day) of domestic and industrial wastewater coming from a manufacturing company located on the East Coast of the U.S. The second contract is an ultrafiltration system using the FiberFlex technology and producing up to 1.7 mgd (64,351 m3/day). This system will be used to provide cooling water for an information technology company located in the western U.S.

Fluence named 2018 Global Decentralized Water & Wastewater Treatment Company of the Year

Fluence Corporation Limited announced it has been awarded the 2018 Global Decentralized Water & Wastewater Treatment Company of the Year Award by Frost & Sullivan as part of its Best Practices Awards. Fluence achieved significant growth in key markets in 2017, including Latin America’s food and beverage industry and China’s rural wastewater treatment market. According to the research report issued by Frost: “As a new company, Fluence’s greatest quality is its diversification. It has several locations and products, and it serves a range of industries from oil & gas and power to food & beverage.” Additionally, “Fluence Corporation leverages innovative and smart technology solutions backed by decades of industrial know-how to excel in water and wastewater treatment solutions.” The research report concludes, “With its easy to use, sustainable, smart and cost-effective solutions as well as a remarkable year of growth, innovation, and leadership, Fluence Corporation earns Frost & Sullivan’s 2018 Global Company of the Year Award in the decentralized water and wastewater treatment industry.”

The Longview City Council Thursday will consider leasing the old city water treatment plant along Fisher's Lane.

The company that wants to lease the building wants to use it for activity not allowed under its current zoning as low-density residential, according to the city. So the potential lease would also require a zoning amendment to allow the proposed activity.

The Fisher's Lane water treatment plant was decommissioned in 2013 when the city moved its water source from the Cowlitz River to a new well system at the Mint Farm Industrial Park.

The council will go into a closed session at the end of the regular council meeting Thursday to discuss the potential lease, as allowed under state open-records law. Then the council will return to open session and direct staff.

The Longview City Council Thursday will consider leasing the old city water treatment plant along Fisher's Lane.

The company that wants to lease the building wants to use it for activity not allowed under its current zoning as low-density residential, according to the city. So the potential lease would also require a zoning amendment to allow the proposed activity.

The Fisher's Lane water treatment plant was decommissioned in 2013 when the city moved its water source from the Cowlitz River to a new well system at the Mint Farm Industrial Park.

The council will go into a closed session at the end of the regular council meeting Thursday to discuss the potential lease, as allowed under state open-records law. Then the council will return to open session and direct staff.

The regular meeting will occur at 7 p.m. in Longview City Hall.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/longview-to-consider-leasing-old-fishers-lane-bwater-treatmentb-plant634153Esra ( water world news )Longview to consider leasing old Fishers Lane <b>water treatment</b> plantFDG Tech Could Significantly Reduce Cost of <b>Water Treatment</b>, U of K Researchers SayWastewater research from the University of Kentucky (UK) Center for Applied Energy Research may lead to cost-effective and practical technologies for reducing and managing wastewater, the school says. A $740,000 grant from the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory will help strengthen the University’s program.

UK’s wastewater research program seeks to intensify the traditional water treatment process, thereby lowering the cost for industry, said Xin Gao, senior research engineer at the center, and the principal investigator for the funded project.

The grant is for studying “intensified flue gas desulfurization (FGD) water treatment for reuse, solidification and discharge.” FDG removes sulfur dioxide from exhaust flue gas at fossil fuel power plants and is an important environmental mitigation process, as it also “captures portions of heavy metals created during power generation, including selenium, arsenic and mercury,” according to University of Kentucky News.

If successful, the technology could significantly lower the cost for water treatment, GAO says.

The market for industrial water treatment equipment will experience a CAGR of 7.34% between 2017 and 2021, according to a recent report from Technavio.

The rise in industrialization will contribute to the growth of the market, owing to the increased demand for recycling water to mitigate the contamination by industry. The exhaustion of natural freshwater resources increases the need to recycle and reuse water through the implementation of various water treatment techniques. Industries utilize huge volumes of water for various processes and most of the industries worldwide have installed a water treatment setup to mitigate the ill-effects of contaminated water, lower operating costs, and reduce environmental footprints. But with rapid industrialization taking place, along with high dependence on clean water, these will be the major drivers for water treatment equipment in industry.

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Saying that channels like Delhi Gate drain, ITO barrage and Barapulla were downstream and water from these was used only for irrigation purposes in western UP, Dinesh Mohaniya, DJB vice-chairman, said confusion was being created by applying drinking water parameters to irrigation water. “The urgent matter at hand is the industrial ammonia pollutants from Panipat, due to which water supply in Delhi has been hit since January,” Mohaniya explained. He added that the long-term process for reducing pollutants in the downstream section of the Yamuna was already being covered under the Yamuna Action Plan-3.
“The parameters for irrigation water are completely different from those for raw drinking water,” Mohaniya said. “We have identified the site of pollution of our raw drinking water at Khojkipur, 60km upstream of the Yamuna pond.” DJB argued that it was losing 30-50 million gallons a day of water and was being forced to undertake rationing. “Our three major water treatment plants are operating 30% below their capacity, leading to disruptions in supplies,” the DJB official added.
DJB took the matter to the National Green Tribunal, which directed CPCB to take water samples to ascertain the current pollutant levels. In these samples, the Delhi Gate drain logged 38ppm ammonia level, Sonia Vihar drain, 35ppm, Barapullah 21ppm, ITO barrage, 24ppm, Wazirabad reservoir, 1.4ppm and Okhla treatment plant, 0.8ppm. DJB is able to treat raw water with ammonia levels up to 0.9ppm.
Mohaniya insisted that the CPCB report was being cited to obfuscate the issue. “Drinking water is picked from upstream, not these drains. The pollution from Haryana consists of industrial waste from Panipat’s dyeing industry, while Delhi only has sewage waste,” he said. These arguments will be discussed along with readings of ammonia taken at various spots at Tuesday’s meeting between the two states.
CPCB has classified Yamuna’s water quality in Category E, which makes it fit only for ‘irrigation, industrial cooling and controlled waste disposal’.
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A well-established Water Treatment company based in Reading are actively seeking an experienced Water Treatment Service Engineer to add to their team of engineers, this candidate must be within at least a 40 mile radius commutable to reading and also have around 2 years previous experience within the industry.

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Water purification experts at Triple Red offer top tips to improve systems

Ensuring your water purification system is working as well as it should is vital. Whether in a laboratory or hospital; an effective purification system should not only be reliable, cost effective and energy efficient; it should also be capable of meeting the needs of every application without compromising accurate results. In this article, Triple Red offers 12 key considerations to look for with your water purification system

1. A question of application

The purity of water required for a laboratory or hospital will be highly dependent upon the applications it will be used for. Ensure you carry out a full audit of all potential users and specifics of the potential applications that will be involved.

2. Volume and frequency

The application audit should be both detailed and quantitative to enable annual volumes by water type to be calculated as accurately as possible.

In terms of frequency, there may be seasonal and/or weekly and daily usage peaks which will affect availability of pure water. To account for this, the application audit should include usage frequency to ensure final system design accommodates the highest levels of demand adequately, while minimising the need to store water

3. Know your space and accessibility

It’s vital to check your space before installation. The amount of space needed to accommodate a fit-for-purpose system can be minimised if part or all of the system components can be safely and securely wall mounted or installed on the benchtop or as a built-in system.

Plus, the pure water dispensing point must be accessible to all relevant users and all components must offer easy access to allow for regular maintenance.

4. Correct pre-treatment

The quality of pure water is highly dependent upon the quality of local feed water. It is essential to test and understand the specifics relating to the chemical and physical impurities associated with available raw water and ensure the correct pre-treatment is included in the system design.

5. Data capture

Advanced technology enables modern water purification systems to deliver the required purity and volume of water based on the quality of the feed water and the nature of the application.

Monitoring and recording key performance indicators associated with water production should be done on a regular basis. A system plan should ensure all necessary data will be captured and recorded in a useful format.

6. Suitable storage

The majority of pure water systems require a suitably sized storage reservoir. This should have appropriate-level controls to control filling of the reservoir when required and a hydrophobic 0.2µm air vent filter. The reservoir should be manufactured from an inert material which does not react with the pure water and have a conical base to allow total removal of contents when cleaning.

7. Keep track of consumables

It is essential that consumables such as ion exchange cartridges, pre-treatment filters and UV lights are replaced on the recommended timescales to maintain optimum quality of the water. It is also recommended that a stock of critical spare parts are held on site.

8. Energy consumption

It is possible for manufacturers to supply information on how much energy a water purification system will consume during use. A simpler method to manage energy consumption is to select systems that can go into standby mode, turning off UV lights and other components when not required. Effective systems will use innovative technology to produce water for the laboratory at less than the cost to run an average domestic light bulb.

9. Consider the environment

Efficiency and environmental impact are hugely linked with your system. During the water purification process a percentage of water is sent to the drain. Pure water system selection should consider how much water is sent down the drain as waste and how much is processed into a useable resource. Water purification systems vary enormously in efficiency but to make yours more efficient and effective:

Evaluate feed water quality for a period of time to allow system designers to optimise system performance

Design and size the system to suit water purification needs

Use the lowest appropriate level of water quality for each application

10. Ongoing quality assurance

For quality assurance, it’s important to check that the pure water system you choose, is designed and manufactured under ISO 9001 certification and that it complies with the local electrical and safety regulations (CE, IECEE, UL, EMC & FCC)

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/10-tips-for-efficient-and-effective-bwater-purificationb634158Esra ( water world news )https://www.hpcismart.com/images/website/ManChemTechnical/DIR_14/F_62214.jpg10 tips for efficient and effective <b>water purification</b>World&#39;s Largest Science Society Recognizes UC PhD Candidate For <b>Water</b> Research

World’s Largest Science Society Recognizes UC PhD Candidate For Water Research

The American Chemical Society recognized Xiaodi Duan with the Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry. Duan researches the removal of contaminants in the water treatment process.

Xiaodi Duan's work in water research gained her the 2018 Graduate Student Award from the American Chemical Society.

Xiaodi Duan is tackling one of the biggest issues of the 21st Century: creating safe drinking water. Duan, a PhD candidate through the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) environmental engineering program, is researching the removal of contaminants from drinking water and wastewater through ultraviolet (UV) advanced oxidation processes.

This month, the American Chemical Society (ACS) recognized Duan for her strides in the field with the 2018 Graduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry. The award rewards outstanding graduate students with a yearlong membership in the Division of Environmental Chemistry within ACS, as well as a check for $125.

“It is my great honor to receive this award,” said Duan. “To be recognized by such a prominent society is gratifying.”

The American Chemical Society is the world’s largest science society. Founded over 140 years ago, the ACS’s mission is “to advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Earth and its people. [Their] vision is to improve people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry.”

Duan reflects this vision through her research on water treatment. In addition to her work at UC, Duan is an intern at the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati. Here she studies the treatment efficiency of the UV advanced oxidation process on a large scale.

“It is exciting to see what I studied in the lab can be implemented in the wastewater treatment plant to make the water discharging into the Ohio River cleaner,” said Duan.

Duan is no stranger to awards. She has received the UC Sigma Xi Research Scholarship, Ohio American Water Works Association Student Paper Award, University Summer Research Fellowship and Richard C. Wigger Scholarship. The ACS also awarded her the C. Ellen Gonter Graduate Student Paper Award.

“All of these awards have encouraged me to continue working in this field while building a strong record at UC.”

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“We want you to give people at least a drinkable water,” a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said, adding that people would not be reading the Railway’s affidavits filed in the court on the steps they propose to take to provide clean water.

The bench told the officials and the counsel for the Railways that they should start the work from any one station as a pilot project.

“People of this country are entitled under the law to get clean water ,” the bench said and asked the authorities to file their action plan positively by April 12.

The bench said the issue assumes importance and deserved greatest attention and it wanted the Railways to examine and take a decision on its own without the court getting into it.

The court was hearing a PIL by NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation, which has sought “an independent and preferably court-monitored probe into the neglect of the quality of the drinking water supply and the manipulations in the award of contracts for supply of chlorination plants for past several years”.

Advocate Govind Jee, appearing for the NGO, said the railways was neither adhering to the standards laid down for drinking water by the Bureau of Indian Standards nor following the Indian Railway Medical Manual.

The lawyer said water being provided on stations and trains was not even being tested for presence of E.Coli bacteria.

The NGO has contended that while the Indian Railways, which has an independent water supply system all over the country, is able to keep trains running by meeting the requirement of water for washing and cleaning of trains, tracks and platforms, it is “failing to supply safe and wholesome drinking water to millions of railway passengers and its staff who live in the railway colonies”.

It alleged that Indian Railways has “continued to neglect the quality of water supply for so many years” as records which have come to light recently show that water quality has been very unsatisfactory for the past several years.

The plea also claimed that “the water treatment infrastructure for disinfection of water by chlorination has almost completely collapsed and level of contamination in the entire supply network from the source to the top is alarming.” (Agencies)

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"Specialist Officers from GMP attended and began negotiating with the man but after a short time, the man fell into the river and was in distress.

"Specialist teams including officers from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service also attended but on seeing the man in the water, PC Mohammed Nadeem, a student officer, jumped into the river and swam towards him.

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"We want you to give people at least a drinkable water," a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said, adding that people would not be reading the Railway's affidavits filed in the court on the steps they propose to take to provide clean water.

The bench told the officials and the counsel for the Railways that they should start the work from any one station as a pilot project.

"People of this country are entitled under the law to get clean water ," the bench said and asked the authorities to file their action plan positively by April 12.

The bench said the issue assumes importance and deserved greatest attention and it wanted the Railways to examine and take a decision on its own without the court getting into it.

The court was hearing a PIL by NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation, which has sought "an independent and preferably court-monitored probe into the neglect of the quality of the drinking water supply and the manipulations in the award of contracts for supply of chlorination plants for past several years".

Advocate Govind Jee, appearing for the NGO, said the railways was neither adhering to the standards laid down for drinking water by the Bureau of Indian Standards nor following the Indian Railway Medical Manual.

The lawyer said water being provided on stations and trains was not even being tested for presence of E.coli bacteria.

The NGO has contended that while the Indian Railways, which has an independent water supply system all over the country, is able to keep trains running by meeting the requirement of water for washing and cleaning of trains, tracks and platforms, it is "failing to supply safe and wholesome drinking water to millions of railway passengers and its staff who live in the railway colonies".

It alleged that Indian Railways has "continued to neglect the quality of water supply for so many years" as records which have come to light recently show that water quality has been very unsatisfactory for the past several years.

The plea also claimed that "the water treatment infrastructure for disinfection of water by chlorination has almost completely collapsed and level of contamination in the entire supply network from the source to the top is alarming."

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According to Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, Government of Canada, the areas of mutual co-operation between the two countries could be in the areas of infrastructure, construction, waste water treatment and education among others.

“We see a lot of potential to grow the bilateral trade between India and Canada. We want to convey that Canada is open to receive investments,” Sohi told newspersons at an interactive session on Indo-Canadian bilateral trade relations organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce here on Monday.

]]>http://waterworldnews.net/39india-canada-cooperation-could-focus-on-infra-bwaterb-waste-management39633635Esra ( water world news )&#39;India, Canada cooperation could focus on infra, <b>water</b> waste management&#39;<b>Water treatment</b> technician/ installer neededhttp://waterworldnews.net/bwater-treatmentb-technician-installer-needed633636Esra ( water world news )<b>Water treatment</b> technician/ installer neededCity evaluates <b>water</b> crises responseJackson city officials are reflecting on their response to the recent water crises, and determining how they can better respond to the next one.

In January, two rounds of sub-freezing temperatures blew through the area, causing water to freeze and mains across the city to burst.

As a result of the breaks, water pressure losses were reported across the city, and schools and some businesses were forced to temporarily close.

City leaders responded to the crisis head on, issuing a state of emergency, bringing on contractors and repairing some 301 breaks between January 1 and January 30.

Public Works Director Robert Miller said the city’s response was multi-tiered, with officials from all levels of government involved.

“We moved quickly at the start of the first crisis to declare a state of emergency and bring in the necessary contractor support. We expanded our call center capabilities to ensure that customer calls were being addressed during the peak … We distributed water at multiple locations … to those customers who needed drinking water,” he said. “Mayor (Chokwe Antar) Lumumba was actively engaged throughout.”

This week, Public Works was expected to begin procurement to repair utility cuts, which occur when roads have to be dug up to make main repairs.

Jackson was getting a handle on the first crisis when the second round of cold weather came through the area, causing additional breaks.

The first cold snap came through in late December and early January, when for consecutive days low temperatures dropped into the teens.

Early signs of the first crisis appeared on January 2 with losses of water pressure in some parts of the city.

By January 4, all of Jackson was under a precautionary boil water notice, and by January 11, 139 major main breaks had been reported with additional ones to follow.

Most burst pipes were repaired by January 14, just in time for a second wave of below-freezing temperatures to make their way to the metro.

By the end of the crisis, 301 breaks had resulted, all of which had been repaired at the month’s end.

Miller estimates that both crises will cost the city around $2 million. That amount includes contractor costs, as well as what it will take to address hundreds of utility cuts.

Miller said he will leave it up to residents to determine the success of the city’s response, and is already working to address areas where Jackson needs to be better prepared.

“There were not cases so much of doing wrong as there (were cases of where) we need to be prepared to do better going forward,” he said.

“We need to ensure the water treatment and pumping facilities used during peak demand periods are adequately maintained during low demand periods. We need to have contingency contracts in place prior to future emergencies … We need to adopt an incident command protocol to ensure adequate 24-hour management during emergencies. We need to expand the number of positions covered under the definition of ‘essential personnel’ during emergencies. We need to expand the number of people working in the call center to provide 24-hour coverage,” Miller explained.

Miller said it’s also important to ensure the city has more contingency agreements with minority, women and locally owned firms.

The administration was criticized by some council members for not hiring minority-owned firms during the crisis.

Firms brought on during the emergency included Hemphill Construction, of Florence, Delta Constructors of Flowood and Utility Contractors of Canton. Southern Consultants of Jackson assisted with identifying valves to be closed off so repairs could be made.

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The group said in a stock exchange filing today that it had received a letter of acceptance for the project located in Amata City Industrial Estate in the province of Rayong, Thailand.

The 66 million baht (RM8.19 million) contract entails the construction of an additional module of the existing wastewater treatment plant facilities built by AnuRAK, to treat the increasing volume of industrial wastewater at the industrial estate.

Construction is set to begin in May 2018 and is expected to go on for six months.

In addition to that, AnuRAK holds the a 30-year concession to build-operate-transfer the facility.

The project is expected to contribute positively to the revenue and earnings of the group upon completion.

On Bursa Malaysia today, Ranhill was unchanged at 72 sen on volume of 116,700 shares.

Irish Water has moved to allay concerns that a "maxed out" sewerage system in Donegal will not cope with an influx of Irish Open golf fans.

Ballyliffin Golf Club, on the Inishowen Peninsula, hosts the Open in July.

Tens of thousands of fans, tourists and the world's golfing media are expected to descend on the village during the tournament.

Irish Water say a plan is now being developed to ensure the system can cope with the visitor numbers.

Last week, the Derry Journal reported that a meeting of Inishowen Municipal District Council was told the sewerage (waste water) treatment plant, is "maxed out and stinks out the village during the summer".

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Rory McIlroy played regularly at Ballyliffin in his youth and continues to be a great supporter of the club

Fine Gael Councillor Bernard McGuinness told the meeting: "Out of everything that needs done in Ballyliffin before July this is the most serious.

"The treatment plant is maxed out during the summer. That's before we even have the Irish Open."

In a statement, Irish Water said: "Irish Water is no stranger to putting in place contingency plans for major events and the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open will be treated in the same way as other events which have successfully taken place across the country.

"The Ballyliffen Golf Club have outlined their requirements to ensure the smooth running of the competition and Irish Water, working in partnership with Donegal County Council are confident that there will be adequate interim arrangements in place in terms of water supply and wastewater requirements to meet the needs of the event."

Irish Water is due to meet councillors and event organisers in Ballyliffin later this week.

This year's Irish Open will be held from 5-8 July.

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Campaigners in Warboys believe plans for a new biomass plant and waste water treatment site on a local landfill site could affect their health - saying they feel like "guinea pigs".

Sycamore Planning Ltd is seeking planning permission from Cambridgehire County Council to build the facilities north of Warboys.

The plants are expected to process 65,000 tonnes of waste water and 48,000 tonnes of wood every year, delivered by 24 tonne lorries visiting the site up to 18 times a day.

'Extremely concerned'

Neighbours are "extremely concerned" about the impact of gases released by a 25-metre chimney and the movement of HGVs on narrow local roads.

Questions have also been raised about the experience of the potential operators of the site and the "untested" nature of the technology to be used.

Sycamore Planning says that the development will have no "significant harm" on the local environment, human health and traffic safety.

The location of the proposed development site (Image: Google)

Betty Ball, 72, who lives in Warboys, spent 25 years working for Warboys Landfill Action Group to get hazardous material removed from the site.

"That was a horrendous time," she said. "We thought that we were the end of it so when this came up that was a horrendous shock."

Mrs Ball questioned the level of experience of Sycamore and operators set up to run the facilities.

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But a spokesman for Sycamore said it had built two other similar power plants in Daventry in Northamptonshire and Meriden in the West Midlands but these were not yet operational.

He added: "There are a significant number of biomass CHP plants operating in the UK and evaporation is commonly utilised in process industries."

'We feel like we are guinea pigs'

Mrs Ball said residents were "extremely concerned" about the burning of grade B and C wood to produce steam to generate electricity.

"It's not the really hazardous stuff it's not the pure wood - it's the middle category," said Mrs Ball.

"They would have paint on them and glue. We don't know what will happen when they go into the atmosphere when they burn it.

"The biggest thing is about the air that we breathe and what these things are throwing out. We feel like we are guinea pigs."

The developers say any process gases released into the air would be monitored and regulated according to environmental permits.

The location of the proposed power plant seen from afar. The combustor would be double the height of the existing building (Image: Katie McCallan)

Documentation from Sycamore says the emissions from the proposed installation are "highly unlikely" to exceed safe levels.

Odour impacts from the evaporation process in the waste water treatment plant are predicted to be "negligible".

But guidance from the Environment Agency says there is "there is insufficient operational experience" of the plant to determine if the smells it produces are "highly offensive or moderately offensive".

'Everyone is upset'

Katie McCallan, 47, a sales manager who lives on the edge of Warboys, said: "Everyone is upset. You have a company of no experience of it, lord knows what the impacts are from a health perspective.

"Part of the reason I live in the community I live in, I enjoy the countryside you don’t expect industrial facilities.

"It just seems the most extraordinary place to put it. It’s on the edge of a village. It’s going to have very detrimental affects.

"They told one of my neighbours there would be no smell but their houses is on what we euphemistically call the 'smelly list'.

"To the village it feels like they have tried to push it through very quickly.

The development site is located off Puddock Road

Alison Jones, 51, who runs a catering business and lives on the edge of Warboys, said: "One of my biggest concerns is the odour.

"One of the planners absolutely, categorically assured me there would be no odour at all. He shook my hand on that.

"Now the documents say there are a number of properties that maybe affected by smells so there are a number of inconsistencies. It's all a bit of a worry.

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"The increasing of lorries will be a concern for people who live in Warboys."

Ms McCallan also expressed concern about the impact of several HGVs using Fenside Road to access the proposed power plant.

“The road is already falling apart," she said. "The idea of bringing HGVs up and down there when you can’t get two cars past each other, is in everybody’s view amazing that this is being considered as a way into the facility."

A view of the development site from the Fens (Image: Katie McCallan)

Mary Bucknell, chair of Warboys Parish Council, said the proposed development gave her "great cause for concern".

"The major concern is the emissions that are going to come from this site," she said. "What the emissions might actually contain.

“If we knew some data from existing installations that this company had had we would be more confident to consider the application but they have’t got any site operational."

What Sycamore said

Sycamore's documentation says the development will create 16 jobs on site and generate 1.2MW of electricity for the National Grid.

A statement from the company said: "A planning application has been submitted which details our plans for development of the site.

"The facility will burn waste wood and heat produced will be used to generate electricity and process waste water, contributing to government targets for increasing energy generation from renewable sources and diverting waste from landfill.

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"The facility will be regulated by the Environment Agency and operated in accordance with the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2014.

"We do not wish to offer any further comment that might prejudice the determination of the planning application that is now under way."

A decision on planning permission by Cambridgeshire County Council will be made later this year.

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